A Child’s Love for the Truth
By Philetus C. Truman
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—About eight months since, Bro. S. W. Rhodes came this way, and I believe that God sent him to proclaim the truth; and I feel to rejoice in it. O, I love the truth. I love God, I love his word, I love his people. O, what sweet comfort I have taken in the company of the brethren, hearing the third angel's message. O, that all my friends and neighbors would love God's truth, and give up their carnal mind, which is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. O, that they might have the mind of Christ. Christ said that he kept all his Father's commandments, and the Apostle said let the same mind be in you which was in Christ. O that they might, with my School-mates receive the love of the truth. Although a child, [I am in my 12th year,] yet I hope that I love God, and love his truth, and I want the whole truth. And as Christ said, as ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them, so I send you two dollars for tracts, so that I may scatter the truth. Pray that I may keep all the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus, that I may be able to stand. I subscribe myself your unworthy brother, believing in the soon coming of Christ.
PHILETUS C. TRUMAN.
Georgetown, N. Y., Aug. 15th, 1853.