Extracts from Letters

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 4, 1856

Extracts from Letters.

Bro. J. F. Case writes from Monterey, Mich.:

“I feel to rejoice that the servants of God are waking up to their eternal interests. I believe truly that we are the Laodicean church; but, thank the Lord, there are a few that will give heed to the message, and repent before it is too late. I sometimes fear that, a promise being left us of entering into that rest, I should by any means seem to come short. At such times it is that I am enabled to feel the importance of having all upon the altar of love; and so I am determined to do. One thing I am assured of, and that is, the road that leads by the cross is the one that leads to the crown. And praise God, if we ever get to the crown, I believe that we shall think that it is cheap enough. Bro. Smith, go on. Although you may have trials and difficulties, remember that you are engaged in a great and glorious cause. Remember too that although there may be some who are slack and indifferent about paying for their paper, yet the Review is a welcome messenger to many a poor soldier of the cross, as it comes richly laden with truth and precious words of consolation. Yes a welcome messenger it is indeed; and O with what love it fills my soul as I read the communications from the saints scattered abroad; and with what affection is my heart drawn out towards them! and with what tenderness do I regard them! But why is it that my heart rejoices as

I think of these things? Praise the Lord, it is because the Review is the medium through which I am permitted to converse with my Father’s family.

“Though we were aliens from the common wealth of Israel, now I trust we are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, and are built upon the foundation—the moral law—of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone. Once more let me say to you, Go on. Although the brethren in Monterey have not much to give, yet we can pray to God to send help and strength; we can pray him to open the hearts of those who have means, that they may give of their abundance to sustain the paper, and to send the truth forth that others may hear the glad tidings that Jesus is coming.”