DEAR BROTHER:—I prize the Review and feel interested in all it contains, especially your articles in regard to the Gospel Order of the church. I feel that it is bread indeed to my soul; O! how much we need Gospel Order among us. My prayer is that it may soon be established among us, here in Oswego. And, also, I feel truly interested in its contents in regard to holiness of heart and life. To my mind it describes the religion of Christ and his apostles. It is what I call Bible religion, and have for twelve years past. Before I made a public profession of religion I have had professors of religion talking with me on the subject, call me sister, and I would say to them, I am not a christian. They believed I was, only I ought to connect myself with a church. Never, said I, will I make a profession of religion until I know beyond a doubt that I have got it. Said I, the church and world is already full enough of such professions. In 1841 I prayed earnestly to the Lord for an evidence of my acceptance with him, if I was indeed a child of his, and it was granted in a way that I have never doubted. No, the darkest hours that I have seen since then, I have felt if I went astray and was finally lost I could say I knew that all my sins had been forgiven.
I feel strong in the truth of the third angel's message. I feel to rejoice from day to day, yet it is with trembling, remembering the admonition to him that thinketh he standeth, to take heed lest he fall.
Dear brethren and sisters, those of us that profess to believe we are hearing the last message of mercy, O, let us square our lives by the plain word of the Lord. Dont let us suppose that we can, somehow, gain admittance at last into the City and have right to the tree of life if we are indulging self, and are living habitually in known sin. The prayer of my heart is that the Lord will enable me to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man. O! for a pure heart and clean hands continually. May the Lord help us to search to know his will and make duty plain, and help us to do his will, regardless of what man shall say or do unto us; for who shall harm us if we be followers of that which is good.