Embracing the Third Angel’s Message
By Ira Wyman
Dear Bro. White: I thank God that I have the privilege of addressing you. It is of late that I have embraced the third angel's message, and have kept but three Sabbaths, and the Lord has been with me. O yes, I thank God that I now see the truth. We have it. I know it is the truth. My experience in the past testifies to it, and that is in harmony with the word of God. I never could give up the past, and my heart has been pained while I have heard my brethren call our past experience the work of the devil, mesmerism, &c. For me to deny the past would be to sin against God, and the Holy Ghost. God was with us in proclaiming the first angel's message, and blessed his truth to the conversion of thousands. And he was with us in the second angel's message. God called us out of the churches, and they are fallen. They know it, and acknowledge it. "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God", &c. We are now having the last message of mercy, and in it is the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Blessed be God, when our Savior comes, he will find just such a people, and that class he will present, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. The advent people in this place call me a Judaizer, fallen from grace, and finally, they blot out the whole law of God. But says our High Priest, "Blessed are they who do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." Rev. xxii, 14. May we be kept in the love of God, and in the patient waiting for Christ, is the prayer of your brother.
IRA WYMAN.
Hebron, N. Y., Feb. 15th, 1852.