DEAR. BRO. WHITE:—I feel desirous to say a word to the scattered flock of God, and I hope that he may speak through me to the comfort of some for whom Jesus died and rose again, who are brought nigh to him by his own blood which was shed so freely on Calvary, when he became the sacrifice for our transgressions. We have nothing to dishearten or cause us to despair, and cast away our confidence. The word of the Lord is immutable, and cannot fail; therefore let us hold on to the sure word of prophecy, contending earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith; and if he draw back, God will have no pleasure in him. Let us not draw back to perdition.
I rejoice that God has set watchmen upon the walls of Zion, which will never hold their peace; nor give him rest, until he establish and make Jerusalem a praise in the earth, which will proclaim, behold thy salvation cometh, his reward is with him, and his work before him. And we may rejoice in spite of opposition, for the Lord has given us a banner, who fear his name; that it may be displayed because of its truth, and now when the enemy has come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord has lifted up a standard against him. Are there few, or many, who will rally around it? With hearts oppressed and sorrowing, let us wait upon the Lord; and be of good courage. I, for one, would have fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. This hope brings joy to the disconsolate mourner in Zion: and while we weep over our impenitent friends, and would do them good, and have them go with us to Mount Zion, we would resign them to a just God, still pleading at the throne of grace for his mercy to hide them in the day of his wrath.