Trials, Restoration, and Christ’s Soon Coming
By Henry Emmons
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—Respecting the little church here, I would say that the brethren have hired a large room in Chapman Hall, where we meet on God's Holy Sabbath. We have had some very sharp trials, but the little remnant are striving to be owned by our Elder Brother, and are waiting his return from heaven. Your weekly visitor is quite refreshing to the dear saints here and abroad. The union of the real children here is growing stronger, and we should be very glad to have some of the traveling brethren come this way. The New Time people are trying to uproot the old land-marks of 1843-4. I heard one preacher say that the Midnight-Cry was only a false alarm; but the old land-marks can no more be moved, than the dashing waves of the ocean can move the massive rocks. The aged pilgrim (of almost eighty years) who writes the above, has great reason to praise and bless his Heavenly Father for many, very many temporal mercies he has received, and special deliverances from dangers and temptations to evil; and also for the restoration of my eye-sight, having had two cataracts on both my eyes for some years. One of them after laying it before the Lord I consented to have an operation on in the presence of five or six physicians and it terminated well. In two or three days I could see plainly. Praise the Lord! The soon coming of Christ cheers my soul: for then if faithful, I shall see my dear Jesus, the 144000, and the untold millions who now sleep in the bosom of the earth. O glorious resurrection! Dear children, when you are tried with poverty, sickness or pain, and the loss of dear friends, remember these former things will soon be forgotten. Yours in the Blessed Hope. HENRY EMMONS.
Boston, Mass., Feb. 19th, 1854.