A LETTER by John Byington

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 26, 1876

A LETTER.

By John Byington

MYSELF and wife being on a visit to our son William and family in Newark, New Jersey, we found ourselves beyond the reach of any meeting of our brethren, Oct. 14. We unexpectedly met here two of our young friends from Mich.,—Theron Stafford and his wife Eva, who were married at our late camp-meeting in Lansing. As they go from their dear parents, may they choose to walk in the ways of the Lord. On first-day, the 15th, I heard two sermons from Eld. J. V. Himes, the first I ever heard him preach. His leading points in his first discourse were drawn from the second woe trumpet, Rev. 9:13, and were applied to the rise of the Ottoman Empire.

His second discourse was from the pouring out of the sixth vial, Rev. 16:12, which he applied to the decline and falling condition of the same power at the present time. He made the five first vials in the past. The first he applied to France, the next four to the Catholic church. Query, When has the Lord yet given the Catholic church blood to drink? Well I never hear preaching but that I can gather some good from it. The coming of Christ is preached and therein I do rejoice and will rejoice.

J. BYINGTON.

Newark, Oct. 16, 1876.