J. F. HAMMOND by J. F. Hammond

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 22, 1857

J. F. HAMMOND

By J. F. Hammond

From Bro. Hammond.

BRO. SMITH: It is with much thankfulness of heart to my kind heavenly Father, and the past and present Editors of the Review that I receive the Review weekly, laden with many precious truths which are cheering to the soul of those that are striving for that blessed inheritance that is in reserve for the faithful. It has been ten years next February since I and my wife first commenced to keep God's holy Sabbath, and never once in the time have I had a sorrowful hour that I embraced this blessed truth. Yet many trials have rolled over my pathway, because of keeping the Sabbath. My poor sad heart has felt to praise God that we have the truth, a truth that will stand till heaven and earth passes away.

I have had the privilege of reading the little paper which is now called the Advent Review ever since its first publication. I had the privilege of reading the first paper that our beloved Bro. White published in Rocky Hill, Ct. Glory be to God! My soul feels the sweet spirit of union with that dear brother, that I felt with him and his companion the Sunday that he first commenced to write for that little sheet, called The Present Truth. I remember well the hot Summer days that he toiled with the scythe in the hayfield to get money to pay his expenses the first time he visited Western New York. May God reward him with a full and abundant entrance into his everlasting kingdom for his labors of love. I have had the paper all the time from the first to the present. I am sorry that I have not been able to do any more to support it, or to help the messengers of God to proclaim the truth. I can say with the poet, "No foot of land do I possess, No cottage in this wilderness, A poor wayfaring man."

J. F. HAMMOND

Springfield, Mass., Jan. 8th, 1857.