p. 23 | AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT by Frank Crandall; Lebbie Crandall

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 18, 1877

AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

By Frank Crandall; Lebbie Crandall

Feeling that we owe a debt of gratitude to the brethren and sisters whom we met at the Illinois Conference, for their self-denial and tenderness in caring for our wants, and for the kindness and sympathy extended to us in our affliction while with them, we wish to make the acknowledgment through the REVIEW, as we cannot consistently address each one individually. Although we are nominally Seventh-day Baptists, we feel that we are in harmony with Seventh-day Adventists in every point; consequently we are laying our plans to find a home among them; and we hope not only to be benefited ourselves by so doing, but to be of some benefit to God's cause and to his people. Sickness prevented our accomplishing our object this fall, but we are in hopes that in the spring, the Lord willing, we shall be able to do so.

The kindness shown us at the late meeting helped to strengthen the cord of brotherly love which already existed between us; and also more firmly to establish us in the belief that they are the people of God. While acknowledging, we wish to remember Bro. James Sawyer, of Battle Creek, and to return our thanks to him for the aid he has rendered us. If the Lord wills, we hope to see him soon and repay him for his trouble. And now we pray that the Lord may not only bless you all in this life, but that he may give you a more abundant inheritance in the earth made new.

Frank Crandall, Lebbie Crandall.

Farina, Ill.