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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 25, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 8, No. 21.

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E. W. PHELPS

By E. W. Phelps

From Sister Phelps.

Bro. Smith:—I would like to say to the brethren and sisters that we are still striving to overcome, still trying to keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus; yet we must acknowledge that we make many crooked paths. Surrounded as we are by a wicked world, and worldly-minded professors, how prone are we to step aside, and do that we should not. And when we have seen and heard the confusion of sentiments that has prevailed for the year past among those calling themselves Sabbath-keepers, we have at times been disheartened, and hardly knew what to think; but we have endeavored to the best of our ability, to serve the Lord and live Christians, and I now feel like starting anew, and striving to possess the Spirit of our Lord and Master; for we read that if we have not the Spirit of Christ we are none of his. We believe the first and second angels' messages of Rev. xiv, are in the past, and that the third is now being given, and when that closes probation will cease.
The Review we still wish to take, although we do not get only about half the numbers. We are very sorry it is so. The "Messenger" we know but little about, having never received but two numbers, and we do not wish any more. Our Saviour says, By their fruit ye shall know them. I have been looking some time to see the fruit manifest itself, and I think I discern some. At all events it is easy enough to see where it is not. It appears to me to be nearer a scattering time in Wisconsin, than the gathering; yet we hope for better days.
There is light sown for the righteous, and we hope yet to see a shaking among the dry bones, to see a revival of the Third Angel's Message, and then I think we should see a revival of religion in our midst.
That all the honest ones may yet get out of the darkness that enshrouds them, and come together in the unity of the faith, and love each other, and love the truth as in former days, is the prayer of your unworthy sister, seeking for immortality.

E. W. PHELPS

Lisbon, Wis., Sept. 6th, 1856.