Extract of Letters

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Sep 26, 1854

Extract of Letters.

Bro. A. Woodruff writes from Richland, N. Y., Sept. 12th, 1854:—"Thank the Lord, dear Bro. White, that I yet live, though it is in a cold, dark stormy world, surrounded as we are by living beings with hearts colder than the earth on which we tread, and minds darker than midnight darkness. Alas for the world! when it shuts its eyes from seeing, and closes its ears from hearing, the law and the testimony; or when they will hear but do it not. What can be more wonderful than the long-suffering and patience of the Holy One towards offending man—a worm of the dust! O what impieties and iniquities are committed under the sun! and blasphemies uttered against the Lord! to all intents and purposes saying, Who is the Lord that we should obey him? or that he should reign over us?

"Will this state of things always remain? Not always! The depredations made, and wrongs committed, against God's law and government will be redressed ere long; the blasphemies uttered, avenged; the loftiness of men bowed down, and the haughtiness of men made low; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

"We are striving to rise above the darkness that surrounds us and to keep our eye fixed on Jesus."