CORRESPONDENCE by Editor

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

CORRESPONDENCE.

By Editor

We take the liberty to publish a large portion of our correspondence, on account of the interest which this department possesses for a great portion of our readers. It is often cheering and encouraging to those who are situated far from those of like precious faith, to learn that there are many others in a similar situation, having a similar experience in the same cause. To this end we solicit short and spirited articles and epistles, from our brethren and sisters, breathing a spirit of holiness, consecration, and love of truth, and containing a word of consolation and encouragement for those who truly feel themselves pilgrims and strangers in this fallen world.

Says the Prophet, [Mal. iii, 16,] “Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his name.” We believe this scripture has a chronological application to the present time. For (1) it is at a time when people are beginning to say that it is vain to serve God, and profitless to keep his ordinances; when the proud are called happy, and the workers of wickedness are set up. Verses 14, 15. (2) It is just before the day in which the Lord makes up his jewels—margin, his “special treasure,” his peculiar people, the 144000. Rev. xiv, 1-6. (3) It is at a time when they that fear the Lord and think upon his name are to be spared. Verse 17. Spared from what? From the righteous judgments of God upon a rebellious world, [Rev. xiv, 9-12; xv, 1,] and from destruction and death; for we which are alive and remain shall be changed. 1 Cor. xv, 51, 52; 1 Thess. iv, 17.

The time is fast approaching when it will be a distinguishing virtue to fear God and think upon his name; for sin and infidelity are waxing bold; and multitudes are making wholesale denials of the word of God under the pretended modern revelations of science, and the masses are turning blindly from the living oracles of God, to the supposed communications from the dead. Isa. viii, 19, 20. Then according to the admonition of the apostle Paul, let us exhort one another, “and so much the more as we see

the day approaching.” As the coming of the day of the Lord and the Son of man, is the all-absorbing event before us, so let it be the all-absorbing topic of our conversation, and our thoughts, and the event in reference to which we may live and act. May He in whose sight even the hairs of our head are all numbered, protect the remnant from the perils before them; and may the fire of his love never go out upon the altar of our hearts.

We have on file several interesting communications for which we have not room in this number.