DEAR BRO. WHITE:—It is with pleasure that I improve this opportunity of writing to the scattered flock of God, to let them know some of my joys, trials, sorrows, hopes and expectations.
I was among that company who were expecting to see the Lord in the Fall of 1844, and was disappointed in not seeing him, and greatly in the dark as to our present position until almost two years since, when I saw Bro. Flower, at his house, in Ashfield, Mass., and he showed me some light on the third angel's message; and after due examination of the Scriptures and also the history of the Sabbath, together with the light of the paper, which I then commenced taking, I came to the full conclusion that the commandments which this angel proclaims, are embodied in the decalogue, or ten commandments; and I pray God to help me keep them, the fourth not excepted. Since I came out in this truth I have had many trials to encounter; but through them all I have been kept till the present time; thank God.
There is one thing more that I wish to relate for the encouragement of others who may be in similar circumstances with me, and to encourage them to keep praying for their children. About three weeks since there was a meeting in Vernon, Vt., which I felt a great anxiety to attend, with my daughter, a girl thirteen years of age; and at the meeting she trusts that she gave her all for Christ. She was there buried by baptism into the likeness of Christ's death, and is striving so to live that she may partake his joys through the resurrection. She is keeping, with me, the commandments, and, in particular, God's Sabbath and not the Pope's. I wish you all to pray for us, as we are all alone here, that we may prove faithful and have right to the tree of life, and enter in through the gates into the city, to go no more out forever.
Should any of the brethren come this way, we shall be happy to see them. Should any of the lecturers come, we wish that they would call and perhaps it might be consistent with duty, for them to hold a meeting with us. I live about three-fourths of a mile north of South Hadley Center, on the road to Hadley.
Your brother in the third angel's message, and looking for redemption when Jesus comes.