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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 9, No. 19.

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C. BYINGTON

By C. Byington

From Sister Byington.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: When I have read your interesting epistles from time to time, my heart has been melted to tenderness and my eyes to tears: I have felt that I have some part and lot with you.
When I embraced the present truth, about five years ago, I was very ignorant of the ways of the Lord. And though I had been a member of the Methodist church above twenty years; and have ever felt, from the first of my trying to be a christian, that secret prayer, prayer in the social meeting, plainness of dress, &c., were indispensable to the enjoyment of religion, yet the present truth discovers to me that my heart was not fully subdued by grace; that pride has often had a place in my heart. I look with deep regret upon the past wrongs of my life, while I see that I have come so far short of ruling my own spirit.
It has been, and still is, my inquiry, What shall I do more fully to overcome all my besetting sins? I praise God for the light that now shines upon my poor heart; for the counsel of the true Witness, that if we obey his counsel, our hearts will be cleansed from the last stain that sin has made. I realize the danger of not walking in the light while we have it. Those who do their whole duty will be brought into the furnace of affliction which will separate us from all our dross.
O may I heed the sure word of prophecy, that the day of the Lord do not come upon me unawares.

C. BYINGTON

Madrid Depot, N. Y., Feb. 26th, 1857.