DEAR BRO. WHITE:—There are some who are now embracing the Sabbath truth in connection with the Advent doctrine, that were not in the move from the commencement, or the former messages. They hear from every quarter the cry of delusion, and others who are partly awakened, are warned to keep away from this people. Now such need all they can have to strengthen their faith, and encourage them in the good work. There may be some who read the Review that think much of the sentiments of John Wesley, who are not familiar with his writings. I thought I would give one or two extracts from his notes.
On the subject of the two horned beast [Rev. xiii] he says, "He has not yet come, though he cannot be far off; for he is to appear at the end of the forty-two months of the first beast." On the 15th verse, speaking of antichrist, he says, "It seems his last and most cruel persecution is to come. This persecution the reverse of all that preceded it will, as we may gather from many scriptures, fall on the outward court worshipers, the formal Christians. It is probable few real Christians shall perish by it; on the contrary, those who watch and pray always shall be accounted worthy to escape all these things and stand before the Son of man."
Is not this a fair description of the last time when formal professors, who remain in Babylon, will say Lord, Lord, open unto us, and then sudden destruction will come upon them, while those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, will be delivered by the coming of the Son of man to translate them to the Paradise of God.
On Rev. xxi, Wesley remarks, "The new heaven and the new Earth and the new Jerusalem are closely connected. This city is wholly new, belonging not to this world, not to the millennium, but to eternity." "That its inhabitants have real bodies and the city is an abode distinct from its inhabitants, and proportioned to them, who take up a finite and determinate space." How very different this view from the many who call themselves the followers of John Wesley. See Wesley's Notes.