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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 10, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 7, No. 15.

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COMMUNICATIONS

By Marshall Edson

From Bro. Edson.

Bro. Smith:—I would say to you and to the brethren and sisters scattered abroad, that I am striving by the grace of God to keep all his Commandments and the Faith of Jesus. I praise the Lord for what he has done for me, and what he is doing for the little remnant in these last moments of time. The Lord is calling out and separating a people from the world, and fitting them for the heavenly garner. He will have a holy and a pure people that will be ready to meet him when he comes.
Dear brethren and sisters, the Lord has not called us out here in these perilous times of the last days to sit down and be silent whilst the enemies of truth are doing all they can to draw souls astray. Let us gird on the whole armor, and have our loins girt about with truth, and we be like those that wait for the Lord when he returns from the wedding.
Let us be at work in the vineyard of the Lord. We all have something to do. Let us be up and doing, and be more awake in his cause, and stand up and defend the truth, and stand upon the word of God, and so live and walk before the world that it may plainly be seen of us that we believe what we profess; that the Lord is soon to come; that we are having the last message of mercy. Do we realize the solemn position that we occupy as we should?
We are truly living in a solemn moment of time, when Jesus is in the Most Holy. His work is almost done. Soon he will take his seat on the white cloud. How holy and pure we must be to stand in that day.
I rejoice and praise God for the way that he has led me; and he will lead me through to the kingdom, if I put my trust in him. I mean by the grace of God to strive to overcome, that when he comes I may be numbered with that little company that John saw stand on mount Zion. No guile was found in their mouths. What a pure company that must be. I want and mean to be there.
Your brother striving for the kingdom.
MARSHALL EDSON.
Franklin Co., Mass., Dec. 23d, 1855.