DEAR BRO. WHITE:—When we look at things through inspiration, it plainly shows that we may expect that some who arose to meet the Lord, will desire, again, the country from whence they came out; therefore, will make unto themselves captains desiring to go back to bondage.
Therefore when we meet with opposition to the last message of mercy, we should not be discouraged, although caused to weep and mourn over them.
Dear Bro. Sperry and I started on a tour Feb. 1st, visited Castleton, Fairhaven, and Low Hampton, and found some who acknowledged the Sabbath &c., but strange as it is, do not feel the importance of not breaking this great commandment, for which Nehemiah said, "did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city."
How can one think or act as though God lightly esteemed the offence of breaking the commandment which reveals his holy name, and who will punish with death for breaking the least of them.
From Low Hampton we went to Fort Ann, Welchhollow, found some favorable to the commandments; thence to Dresden, Port Marshall, found some dear, humble children struggling along for life. O, how sad a spectacle are they, who have seen and felt the Sabbath truth, and shrunk at the cross, and try to climb up some other way, how soon they are left to fight against the way of eternal life.