Extracts from Letters

Publishing Committee · BATTLE CREEK, MICH. · May 27, 1858

Extracts from Letters.

J. Mears writes from Plain, Wood Co., Ohio, May 4th, 1858: "I cannot well do without the Review, for I believe it advocates the right kind of principles. It is not long since I knew that there was a people who take such Bible ground as you do. I read and think for myself, and some years since came to the conclusion that the "isms" did not teach the Bible or I could not read it. I never joined any of them; and in fact went so far as to ask, Is there any such religion in the world as Christ and his Apostles taught? I was answered, Yes; but I was never able to see the fruit. But when friend Holt (I term him friend, for I do not consider myself worthy to be esteemed a brother) began to lecture here this Winter, I knew that he spoke the truth, and I was acquainted enough with sacred and profane history to know that he told nothing but the truth, and I said to myself, Here is my belief in the main pictured to me, and if I am honest I must acknowledge it. By the grace of God I have endeavored to do so, and my earnest prayer to God is, that I may ever be found in the way of truth; for the truths of the Lord are my chief delight."