Extracts from Letters

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 18, 1856

Extracts from Letters.

Bro. L. M. Bodwell writes from Rubicon, Wis.: "I believe the faithful warnings and admonitions of the Review. The articles in relation to our present position I believe to be just what the church need; for it does appear to me that the church is at the present time lukewarm; and I hope and pray that we may all of us heed the counsel of the faithful and true Witness, and be prepared to stand in that hour of strong temptation which is coming upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the face of the earth."

Bro. H. W. Lawrence writes from West Bangor, N. Y.: "Bro. Smith, the church is rising once more in this section. Bro. Sperry has been laboring some of late among us, and most of the brethren and sisters are repenting of their lukewarmness, and arousing to a deeper sense of the time in which we live. My heart beats in unison with the work."

Sister E. Degarmo writes from Parish, N. Y.: "When I embraced the Advent doctrine, and then the Third Angel's Message, I did not put my hand to the plough to look back, but through the merits of Jesus and by faith in him, to endure to the end that I might see and dwell with the King in his beauty. I long to be like my Lord in all things. If it was not for my Bible and the Review and the presence of that dear Friend who feels his children's woes, and knows how to soothe and calm their sorrows, I should be most lonely; but Jesus has done all things well, and I feel to submit with cheerfulness, and say, Thy will, O God, and not mine, be done."

Bro. W. C. Negus writes from Grand Ledge, Mich.: "I am striving to take heed to the counsel to the Laodiceans. I thank the Lord that he has a few faithful watchmen left to proclaim the words of life. I often wish that some of them would come this way. I have yet not been blest with the privilege of baptism."

Bro. N. A. Curtis writes from West Canaan, N. Y.: "The paper is still a welcome messenger, and we rejoice in the clear light it contains on our present position. We fully believe we are in the Laodicean state of the church. This being the case, our duty is clear: to heed the counsel of the true Witness, that we be not at last found with the number that are poor and miserable, &c. May the Lord help us."