Striving to Keep God’s Commandments
By John Alexander
Dear Bro. White :—I am still striving by the grace of God to keep his commandmends and the faith of his Son and hope to enter in through the gates of the city and have right to the tree of life. I can say that I delight in the law of God but I often think of Lot who was vexed with the unlawful deeds of the Sodomites. Truly we are in perilous times. There never was a time when men loved themselves more than at the present, having a form of godliness, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, who are breaking God's commandments and teaching for doctrine the commandments of men. But the time is at hand when they shall proceed no further; for very soon shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between the commandment-keepers, and the commandment-breakers. O, brethren let us watch and be sober having our loins girded with truth and our lamps burning. Pray for me that I and my family may be found with all the dear saints without spot, and blameless. Yours waiting for redemption.
John Alexander.
Forestdale, Vt., June 2d, 1854.