COMMUNICATIONS by Sarah J. Grant

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Oct 17, 1854

COMMUNICATIONS.

By Sarah J. Grant

From Sister Grant.

DEAR BRO. WHITE:—Excuse the liberty I take in presuming to address a few lines to the public through the Review; being a stranger, and having but recently embraced the truth, the deep interest I feel for the cause of God, and the spreading of the truth, must be my only apology. I am young, and I would say a few words to the young who have heard the truth and are undecided. I have not come out from any church and embraced the Advent doctrine, but I have turned from what is termed the world. The pleasures of the ball-room were a temptation to me: perhaps they are to you. The fear of ridicule held me back: perhaps it does you. If so, I ask, I beg of you, to stop and consider before it is too late. You have the word of God: read and obey it.

The time is fast approaching when you will need something more substantial than the follies of this world to bear you up. Nothing short of the all-powerful arm of God can sustain you in that day when the vials of his wrath shall be poured out upon the earth. Then flee to Jesus while there yet is mercy. Call upon him while it is to-day; for to-morrow you may never see. Seek him while he is near; for soon will the cry be heard, "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and I am not saved." How awful will your condition then be. Turn, then, my young friends, turn with me. Let us keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Let us be of that number of whom it will be said, "These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." That God may sink the truth of the third angel's message deep in the heart of every person, is the prayer of your unworthy sister.

SARAH J. GRANT. Rush Lake, Fond du Lac Co., Wis.