A SISTER writes from Whitehall, N. Y.: I feel my heart more especially drawn out to those dear sisters who meet with opposition, persecution, and even abuse, from their companions in life; for I have known more of it than I can tell. But I have learned by this experience to trust the Lord to the last extremity, even when death stared me in the face. The Lord did not spare me from the trial, but when he has tried me and proved me, he has never failed in any instance to calm the angry billows of persecution and stay the arm of cruelty. This is the way, dear sisters, the Lord is taking to test us, and to teach us to exercise faith and trust. We know more of the love and faithfulness of God toward his individual creatures, than they whose “lives a peaceful tenor keep,” Then let us keep near the mercy-seat, and perform every duty and faithfully wait until the Lord sees that we need no more purging. “Then we shall come forth as gold.” I must not neglect to say a word in regard to the state of our little band here in Whitehall. The dear brethren who have occasionally visited us have done us much good, and I trust that some at least appreciate their labors. Last August, our dear father was baptized into the sufferings and death of our Lord, by Bro. C. O. Taylor; and we have had great encouragement given us lately by one more commencing to keep the Sabbath of the Lord. It was by the reading of our good paper that this dear sister was led to flee to the stronghold for safety, and begin to keep the down-trodden law, that she might be hid in the secret of the “Lord’s pavilion,” in the time of trouble. She desires baptism.