The Review Opens Scripture Understanding
By Thos. G. Bartlett
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—The Review comes to me a welcome messenger. It has been the means of opening the Scriptures to my understanding; and my prayer is that it may be ably sustained. I have formerly been a member of the Congregational church and a believer in a temporal millennium until a year ago last spring. Bro. Waggoner then came to this place and gave some lectures on the prophecies and the law of God; and since then I have kept the Sabbath of the Lord, and renounced the doctrine of a temporal millennium, believing in the second advent near at hand.152 Bro. Stewart came here last Fall and gave a course of lectures, and quite a number have embraced the Sabbath. We would be very happy to have some brother come and labor with us. My prayer is, that I may get the victory over all my besetting sins, that every evil passion may be subdued, and that I may keep clear of the mark of the beast, so that I shall be permitted to meet our Saviour with joy when he shall appear. Yours in hope. THOS. G. BARTLETT. Adario, Wis., May 16th, 1854.