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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 6, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 7, No. 23.

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Remember the Poor.

Bro. J. W. West writes from Peterboro', Madison Co., N. Y., as follows:
"When I look over the pages of the Review and read of the indisputable truths which it advocates my heart melts with sorrow to think that I have been in such a low state of living since I have been brought to the knowledge of truth through its instrumentality, that I have not been able to contribute to its aid. But dear brother, I am poor, and a cripple, and forsaken by the great mass because of this truth, and there is not one in Peterboro' who tolerates this faith in the light of the Third Angel's Message; therefore my poverty has rendered me unable to give you anything. I have had this Winter to beg the kindness of the neighbors for a little wood and a piece of bread. I am so much afflicted that I cannot work."
"I still hold on to the truth and am trying to live a Christian life. I am trying to get up a subscription paper to see whether I can get any help, and if I can, I will help you, and if I cannot, dear brethren, don't forsake me. I love the paper. It is all I have to give me any comfort besides the joys of God and the power of the Holy Ghost, and my prayer is that the holy cause may still prosper so that the whole land shall be awakened to this great truth."
We trust our brethren will remember the poor of the flock, and minister to their necessities of their abundance, according to the precept of "pure religion and undefiled." Jas. i, 27. Says Jesus, [Luke xiv, 13, 14,] "But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind; and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." Then will it be said unto you, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me." Let therefore the Lord's stewards look to the necessities of the needy, until that day arrives when all who, though they are poor in this world's goods, are rich in faith and heirs according to the promise, shall enter upon their "inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away," and realize the full extent of that glorious promise, "All things are yours!" 1 Cor. iii, 21-23.—ED.