DEAR BRO. WHITE:—It is now about five weeks since Bro. Alonzo Miles presented some of your Publications to me for examination, with the third angel's message; and being desirous after truth, I immediately commenced examining and comparing them with the Word of God, and soon was surprised to see how they agreed and harmonized with the inspired Word of God. After candidly and carefully examining, we have been persuaded in our own mind, and myself and wife, with a daughter, about fourteen years of age, have come out of the Episcopal Methodist Church, and now, thank the Lord for the clear light that shines through all his Word.
I wish to give you a short sketch of our christian experience since 1840. At that time we lived over east of the Green Mountains, in a village near the line of Canada East, in Vermont, about 140 miles from Low Hampton, where Bro. Wm Miller resided, who came up to our town in that year (1840) and delivered his course of lectures. We attended the most of the time, until he got through. He appeared a very candid man, with a very powerful mind, and appeared to be familiar with the Word of God, from which he seemed to prove all his positions. We were then in the Open Communion Baptist Church, and were not fully converted to the Second Advent Views, until Josiah Litch came from Boston, and lectured in the same village in 1842. We then came out of the church, and went with the Second Advent people, and dedicated ourselves wholly to the Lord in prayer, and were happy in believing and waiting for the Lord to come and cleanse the Sanctuary, which we supposed meant the world, and to take his waiting children home. But alas! time rolled on and we were all disappointed. We could not tell our whereabouts; but we kept our faith that Christ would soon come.
In October, 1844, we moved to this Western Country, where we have remained till the present time, and received no further light of any account, until we became acquainted with Bro. Miles' people, this Spring. We tried to live alone in this dark corner, and keep our faith, for nearly four years, till, at length, we were prevailed upon to join the E. Methodist Church in this village. But in this we soon found that we had done wrong; for their views of the Bible did not agree with ours, of which we could not speak, and, consequently, went home many times from their meetings, sorrowful. But now, praise his holy name, we have received additional light from the Lord; and we can now see that no one can enjoy the blessing of7God, and have the faith of Jesus, and, after they receive light, remain in these organized churches that do not keep the holy Sabbath. They are at variance among themselves, and are only agreed, with the world, in putting down the Advent people.
There is a little band of us here that meet regularly on the Sabbath, and as often as may be, on other days, to pray, sing, and exhort, and we enjoy ourselves well, in doing His will, and looking and waiting for our divine Master. But O how gladly would we see Bro. White, or some other preacher, here, that he might bring some of the doubting, wandering souls, home to Christ. I feel truly desirous for the welfare of this glorious cause, and feel gratitude to God that I have been permitted to live to see something of its prosperity.