DEAR BRO. WHITE:—I find many more to hear, than I have strength of lungs to talk to. I feel well in the Lord, and have peace like a river, and mean that my righteousness shall be like the waves of the sea, that is, one kind, or right act following another, like the waves of the sea.
I am much rejoiced to hear that the Lord is strengthening the hands of the remnant in Rochester, by adding to you such as shall (I trust) be saved.—I rejoice daily with weeping that I am so highly honored of God, that I have a humble place among his called, and chosen and faithful.
I am refreshed greatly, and much strengthened and encouraged, as often as I hear from my brethren abroad, through the Review and Herald. I wait anxiously for its semi-monthly visits, and would that I could see it, and hear from those I so much love, weekly. I often pray that the Lord would raise up laborers, qualify them, and send them into the wide field, that is now open, and still opening for the servants of God to go with his commandments, and the faith of Jesus. The truth we have from the third angel, is mighty through God, in bringing out and making manifest the saints.
While traveling by the way a few weeks since, I opened my Bible to the following scripture, and committed it to memory, and mean to be sanctified through it, the Lord helping. "We then, as workers together with him, [Christ,] beseech you [my brethren] also, that ye receive not the grace of God in vain." "Giving no offence in any thing that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things." 2 Cor. vi, 1, 3—10.
I often find honest-hearted souls who readily receive the light of present truth. I am sure I feel more than twice as strong in the Lord as I did one year ago.
The Bible says, "the righteous shall hold on his way, and grow stronger and stronger." I did not intend, when I commenced this letter, to write only to send you a few names for the paper.