Keeping All the Commandments of God
By H. S. Wells
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—As I am spending the Summer with a sister residing in this place, and as we are deprived of the privilege of assembling ourselves together to worship, and to exhort one another as formerly, and to do so (as we are commanded) so much the more as we see the day approaching, the Review comes to us indeed a welcome messenger; and I realize its worth, and how highly those prize it who are separated and alone, far more than when I had a weekly sitting among brethren and sisters at their meetings. I am striving to keep all the commandments of God, not in letter only but in spirit, that I may finally have right to the tree of life and have an admittance through the gates into the city. When I see how few there are who are keeping the whole law of God, (there are no Sabbath-keepers here but Bro. and Sr. Palmiter with whom I reside,) I feel to pray the Lord to speed the message. O send out thy light and thy truth that the message may go with mighty power, that honest people may believe and come to a saving knowledge of the truth, that they may be shielded in the day of the Lord. Your sister, striving to overcome and to be prepared for the coming of Jesus.
H. S. WELLS.
Verona, N. Y., July 27th, 1854.