A Letter by H. S. Gurney

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 14, 1878

A Letter.

By H. S. Gurney

DEAR SIGNS OF THE TIMES: This name sounds familiar to me. I was one among those who took the first number of a paper by this name published in the interest of the first angel's message, at Boston, Massachusetts; and I immediately came into the ranks of those who looked for the coming of the Lord; and perhaps none felt the disappointment more keenly than myself. I could not believe that Satan directed the movement. I therefore waited till the voice of the third angel reached me, and I rejoiced to see a harmony and progress in the last warning voices. And from that time onward, and now my mind is clear that this work in the three messages was heaven born—is heaven bound, and the song of triumph will soon be sung on Mount Zion.

Nothing interests me so much as the progress of this work. Most all my life, or religious experience is in the Advent movement from the beginning to the present time; and to now throw it away is to throw away my life, yea; eternal life; for we have not followed cunningly devised fables but the "sure word of prophecy." Therefore, I would say, let the SIGNS sound the alarm in all the world and make the inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of the Lord cometh. It is nigh at hand.

May God bless the SIGNS and all the workers in the last message who are looking for that blessed hope. H. S. GURNEY.

P. S. I wish to take this opportunity to express my sincere regards for my dear Brother and Sister White, with whom I have labored much and been intimately acquainted for more than thirty years. May God bless them still as he has in the past and lead them on in this glorious warfare. H. S. G.