Light and the Master's Nearness
By John Fost
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—It animates our souls to think of the Master's being near. Brethren, we are not in darkness, that that day should overtake us a thief. Thank God for the light given us. Brethren we are commanded to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the truth, and to ask God for wisdom;112not of College-bred tradesmen who hew out broken cisterns, that can hold no water. They preach and tell their hearers that they don't understand Revelation and Daniel, and cannot tell anything about them. They turn the pure word of God upside down. They use in prayer vain repetitions. They begin and pray for Canada, then cross over to England, then back to the United States and finish with the temporal millennium. They pray the Lord to save their never-dying souls, that they may go beyond the bounds of time and space. This is the doctrine we used to believe when Methodists; and when I think of it, it causes my heart to rejoice that light has sprung up, and the scales have fallen from our eyes, and the things which we once despised now we love. Glory to God! Go on dear brethren and sisters! Dig deep, and search earnestly and the pearl will be ours. O it does my soul good to go three or four miles to talk with a brother. O may the Lord still smile upon us, and give us faith that we may please him and keep his commandments, and wear this world as a loose garment, that when he comes we may rejoice to meet him, and dwell with him in his kingdom. JOHN FOST.
Trenton, Canada West, April 20th, 1854.