Letter from Bro. Hutchins.
By A. S. Hutchins
Bro. Smith:—By the grace of God assisting, I am still pressing forward "to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away." This world looks dark and dreary, and I do not, I cannot, believe that we shall have to toil on much longer here. I would not make my feelings a standard to determine in this great matter. No, by no means; for I think the signs of the times fully justify us in the conclusion that the great day of God's wrath is not far in the future. Dear reader, will you be prepared to stand in that awful day? Shall I be prepared? These are questions which we should settle in the light of the holy Bible. A worldly spirit is certainly stealing over some that profess to be walking in the light of the Message of the Third Angel. This should not be so. We should be placing our affections more and more on things above, and less and less on things of this earth, which are so soon to be destroyed. In past days churches have been the most highly favored of God, enjoyed the most of his Spirit, in their youthful days, in the moments of infancy. But the remnant must not be content with having enjoyed much of the divine favor of the Lord; we must be more like the blessed Saviour, and less like this world. "Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body." "Soon shall we hear him say,
Ye blessed children, come;
Soon will he call us hence away,
And take his wanderers home."
A. S. HUTCHINS.
Hampton, Ct., July 28th, 1856.