MR. EDITOR :—I have come many thousand miles across the ocean from a benighted heathen land. I was twenty years old before I could read one word of Scripture; and about two years from that time I was converted to God. He made me to feel that I was a condemned sinner; and I saw that nothing could save me but Faith in Christ; and God in his goodness made me see that I could do nothing to save myself. And I will tell you, that in my own country, Lapland, I was persecuted for Christ's sake: they would spit tobacco in my face, and strike me with their hands, and do many things to vex and mock me; and yet I was happy and rejoiced in God that I was accounted worthy to suffer for his sake; and confessed with tears my attachment to God. I will tell you too, that it is only two months since I heard the doctrine of the Second Advent. I have read some of your papers, and they tell much about the faith of Jesus. About one year ago, I commenced keeping all the commandments of God. But much as I am pleased with your paper, you entertain one idea that I do not understand, and I wish you to give me the passages of scripture that proves this doctrine. This is concerning the destruction and final extinction of the wicked. I understand the Scriptures to read that the "wicked go away into everlasting punishment," that the "smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever. I belong to no church, but the Church of Christ. I find so many errors in every church, that I feel I cannot walk with them. I am therefore deprived of the privilege of sitting at the Lord's table. The Methodists will not receive me because I keep the true Sabbath: the Seventh day Baptists will not receive me because I do not belong to their church.
I am your friend. ALEXANDER SUNROCK.
Milton, Rock Co., Wis. 1854.
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