Eliza Carpenter by Eliza Carpenter

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

Eliza Carpenter

By Eliza Carpenter

From Sister Carpenter.

Bro. Smith :—Permit me to add my testimony with those of like precious faith. We receive the Review weekly, and rejoice to read the cheering epistles from brethren and sisters. My heart has been made to rejoice that we have been permitted to hear the prophecies explained, and been willing to receive the truth. I believe now the Third Angel's Message is being proclaimed to a perishing world. O, what a solemn thought! to think the people of this world are so regardless of the truth, transgressing God's law, keeping commandments of men, taking creeds for their guides, instead of the Bible. No wonder the world is in such a state. No wonder that religion has become dead, without power.

There are some honest souls that are ready to receive the truth; and O how it becomes us, as Christians, to act, speak and live, that we may not bring a reproach upon the cause. It is my prayer that I may be zealous and repent, that I may so live that I may adorn that profession that I have made, that I may have my robe washed white in the blood of the Lamb, that I may be looking with joy for my Saviour.

Have we not enough to encourage us on? Has not God done all that he can? Surely then we have the more to answer for. O that we might be active that our sins go to judgment beforehand.

Eliza Carpenter

Hanover, Mich.