p. 199 | RUSSELL WEAVER by Russell Weaver

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Apr 28, 1853

RUSSELL WEAVER

By Russell Weaver

From Bro. Weaver.

DEAR BRO. WHITE:—Although we are strangers in the flesh, I trust we are brethren and fellow citizens in the household of God.

My name has been registered with the people called Christians forty-four years, and I have taken a great deal of comfort with them, especially in times of reformation, when we were raised up to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

But, O, since that time, how has the most fine gold become dim, and what a time of trial in the dark and cloudy day. How I have sighed, and cried before God, at home and abroad, on the road, in my field and in the meeting in prayer to Almighty God to know what I should or could do. And my heavenly Father has blessed me in so doing, and kept me from falling. Glory to his holy name.

My great trial has been to get the church to travel with me. I tell them that there is greater light before us; that we have not got all the light, and if they keep company with me they must travel. I believe that the time has come for the books of Daniel and John to be understood as well as other scriptures; for they were sealed for a definite time. And I believe that our glorious High Priest will soon come, and raise the righteous dead, and change the living saints, and, then glory to God, there will be a shout that will make heaven and earth ring.

I believe, also, that the seventh-day Sabbath is still the only Sabbath of the Bible, and a blessing instead of a curse, and have been trying to keep it for six years past. But I stand alone in these things. My brethren do not see, nor travel with me. But I have

been greatly encouraged of late; for God has sent our dear Bro. Chapin out into this region, and we have enjoyed several glorious meetings with him. And I do and will rejoice; for God through his instrumentality has started out six of my children to keep the Bible Sabbath and believe in the near coming of Jesus. Glory to God, and my dear companion also. O, what blessed meetings we have had at my house since then.

We bless God for the privilege of worshiping with a people that believe that all the scriptures are a revelation, and that we may learn more and more, for the path of the just shines more and more until the perfect day. I enjoy a great blessing also in reading the Review.

RUSSELL WEAVER

Mt. Cambria, N. Y., Apr. 4th, 1853.