p. 127 | LETTERS by John A. Luke

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 17, 1861

LETTERS.

By John A. Luke

"Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another."

From Bro. Luke.

DEAR BRO. WHITE: You will perhaps be surprised on receiving a note from an entire stranger; but by your kind indulgence I will briefly introduce myself to you and the dear brethren in the third angel's message. For seven years I had been a member of the so-called Christian church, and thought my faith was as immovable as the "eternal hills. I had read the most of Bro. Campbell's works, and had listened to his lectures for a year; and had associated with some of the ablest ministers of the so called reformation, by whom I was treated with much kindness, and for whom I yet cherish the kindest regards, especially John Allen Gans of Kentucky, in which State I was born and raised. But in the providence of God I was permitted to hear the third angel's message from Brn. Waggoner and Shortridge during a meeting held by them, beginning Aug. 9, near Eddyville; and praised be the name of the Lord, I now see a beauty and loveliness in the law of God and faith of Jesus never beheld before. I had been violating that sacred law by laboring on the Sabbath of the Lord, but when the commandment came sin revived and I died, and by Bro. Waggoner was buried by immersion into the death of my Redeemer; and I now consider my life hid with Christ in God; and when he shall appear, if I prove faithful unto the end, I will appear with him. The persecutions of my former brethren are beginning to wax hot against me. Pray for me brethren that I may hold out faithful and receive a crown of life.

Yours in the hope of eternal life. JOHN A. LUKE. Eddyville, Iowa.