DEAR BRO. WHITE :—With some feelings of anxiety for the scattered, torn and poor flock, I address these few lines to you. O, how I am reminded of that scripture, that describes the flock of slaughter in this day, "Whose possessors slay them; and their own shepherds pity them not." Zech. xi, 5. Many, around, for a time, are affected seriously with the third angel's message, and the seventh day as the true Sabbath; but their own shepherds trample these precious truths under their feet, and cast the dust of tradition in their eyes; thus blinded, they lead them captive at their will, onward to the "slaughter."
On the third inst. sixth day, a dear brother came twenty miles to my house, inquiring after light on the third angel's message. He said, that he came up on the two former messages, and midnight cry, to 1844. He, like others, although deeply disappointed, believed that the Lord had led us to that period; and although he could not account for the disappointment, yet still, expected that light would come. He moved from Canada East soon after 1844, to the broken hills of the Mountains of Vermont, where he has taken none of the counsel-darkening advent papers—alone with his little family;—making the Bible his counsel and light—his past experience, his monitor; and God alone, his trust,—waiting for justification of his past hopes, and the salvation of God's true Israel—when, by chance, four or five numbers of the Review, (which were obtained by his neighbor while in Massachusetts on a visit) were put into his hand. With eagerness he read, saw and embraced the light, and he and his companion set out keeping the Sabbath. He saw my name in the paper, which led him to my house, where we had a blessed time in feasting on the word of God and prayer.
O, how clear the present truth makes his past experience. How freely flowed the tears of joy, while his full soul poured forth his deep grateful praise to God for light. I furnished him with our pamphlets and papers &c. He had heard no lectures, nor intimations of any of the present truth, except those papers, when he came to our house. Some others are taking an interest in our meetings of late. ELON EVERTS.