Prepared for the Lord’s Coming
By Avery Lanphear
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—I am a stranger to you personally, but through the Review, I have formed a happy acquaintance with you, and many other dear friends whose letters appear there, which are very interesting to me, and often revive my drooping spirits. There are not many about here that openly avow your principles in regard to the speedy coming of the Lord; but are putting the day far off, and I fear that it will come upon them when they are not ready, and find them without oil in their lamps. It is a dark time at present among the professed followers of Christ. Few, indeed, are those who are full of the Spirit and power of religion. O, may the Lord help, ere he comes and finds us unprepared, and we perish. Your brother in the Lord, AVERY LANPHEAR. Nile, N. Y., July 28th, 1853.