Light Springing Up

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 29, 1875

Light Springing Up.

The following letter from a lawyer in Edina, Mo., has been of such interest to us, that we take the liberty, though it is a private letter, to give our readers the privilege of its perusal:—

EDITOR REVIEW AND HERALD, DEAR SIR:

I am satisfied that your publications contain the truth pertaining to this age of the world; and that all things combine to indicate, not only some universal crisis, but that that crisis is the last conflict of the church and the coming of the Son of man in the clouds of heaven.

I was before strongly inclined to this view, but I may say I no longer feel any doubt in regard to the very near consummation of all things, and that the truth appropriate to such a state is with those who have long been derided, but who through all have held the torch burning against the gathering darkness.

I adore God that he has at last brought me to the truth. Through many years, I have been tossed by doubts and fears as to the truth of common theology, and in my own mind, at many times, had concluded it in the wrong, but feared to step from the ground I was already on, till firmer footing should appear elsewhere.

I can scarce refrain from crying out, as these truths open up in resistless demonstration before my mind. The Lord God be praised that light is sprung up to them that sat in the regions and shadow of death.

In gratitude I shall enroll myself among those who have the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Still, though fully satisfied as to the conclusions, I desire you to send me some work which traces the prophecies from their origin through intervening events to the present.

I have a general idea of the leading themes of the prophets, and understand how our own country is made to explain a portion of Revelation, but the other prophecies of Revelation are, to a great extent, a mystery to me.

H. W.

April 16, 1875.