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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 12, 1856

C O M M U N I C A T I O N S.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

"Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another."

From Bro. Cartwright.

BRO. SMITH:—There was a Conference held in Sullivan, Wis., May 24, 25, one week earlier than was announced through the "Messenger." There was not as good an attendance as there would have been had the appointment been fully circulated before. Brn. Hall, Reed, Steward, Sheffield and Phelps were there. Brn. Hall and Reed took the position that the Three Angels' Messages are in the future, and that the United States are not represented by the two-horned beast of Rev. xiii. The rest of the lecturing brethren were on the opposite side of the question. Bro. Hall also holds that children and heathen will have no resurrection.

These views do not look like Bible truth to me. I fear that errors gross and destructive are creeping into our midst. O, brethren, let us look well to our steps that they slip not into error. Let us look to the Word as the guide of our steps; for it is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path, and full well we know it is a perfect light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Let us, my brethren, awake and put our hand to the plow with redoubled zeal; for the day of the Lord hasteth greatly, and who shall be able to abide the fierce anger of his coming? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart. But alas! how few there are at present who can claim the latter distinction as theirs. My heart aches as I look abroad over the face of the world, and see it so entirely swallowed up in iniquity; but my eye turns to the New Earth, where no temptation or sin will ever enter. I rejoice that the way of salvation has been revealed to poor fallen man, that they may, if they will, have a share in the glorious future—eternal life in the kingdom of God! Why, my brethren, what ought we not to be willing to encounter for this privilege? Let us be faithful that we may be of the "little flock."

Your unworthy brother, D. W. CARTWRIGHT. Oak Hill, Jeff. Co., Wis.