S. N. HASKELL by S. N. Haskell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 20, 1871

S. N. HASKELL

By S. N. Haskell

Testimony, No. 20.

THIS Testimony has just been received, and I have read it with deepest interest. I think no person who is preparing to meet God will read it without profit. The work of getting ready to meet our divine Lord, is a real work, and any light that will point out dangers, discover errors, and show wrong habits, should be most carefully examined and prayerfully carried into practice.

I have the Testimonies from 10-18 bound in one volume, also from 1-10, which I carry with me for constant reading and reference. And as I have carefully read and re-read them, I have been surprised to see dangers all around which were pointed out years ago; and many particular things mentioned I daily see transpiring. Within the last six months I have been brought into circumstances where I should have been at loss to know what to do, had I not read in Testimonies given years ago a vivid description of things as they were, and the object of Satan in them; therefore to me they have proved a blessing. If God has spoken, it is for a purpose; and the more carefully his word is heeded the more benefit will be derived from it. To merely read these Testimonies and then lay them aside, is not enough.

I recommend to all a careful and prayerful reading not only of Testimony, No. 20, but also of the others. Many will find themselves lost in the day of Judgment, when the very snare in which they became entangled, was clearly pointed out by the Testimonies, which perhaps they had read, but in as careless and heedless a manner as they would a story in an almanac. Let no one regard as unimportant any light that God has permitted to shine upon these perilous times, but gather up every ray of light, and value it as something very precious.

S. N. HASKELL

South Lancaster, June, 1871.