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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 9, No. 15.

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E. M. HUTCHINS

By E. M. Hutchins

From Sister Hutchins.
BRO. SMITH: It is encouraging to read in the Review the testimonies from so many who are striving to heed the counsel of the faithful and true Witness, "Be zealous therefore and repent." And I am deeply anxious to unite with them in this work of reform.
I feel that we have reached a very important crisis. Much depends upon what we now do. With the threatening of God before us, to spue us out of his mouth unless we repent, how can we be careless! Yet notwithstanding this, I greatly fear for myself at times, lest for lack of zeal, and true heart-felt repentance, I may be left to fall with those who fall.
When I embraced the Third Angel's Message, I felt like giving up all to God. I believed nothing short of this would be accepted. And since then it has been my desire to serve the Lord with faithfulness. But I now see, in my efforts to glorify him, I have greatly failed. I have wanted much for energy in the cause of God. But I am thankful that still Jesus waits to have mercy, and to abundantly pardon his erring children. He says, As many as I love I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. O may we not count the chastenings of the Lord grievous; nor faint when we are rebuked of him. But rather count them as tokens of his love to us, and improve them as special blessings from his hand.
Can it be, dear brethren and sisters, that one of us will be left finally to bar the Saviour from our hearts? But we are doing it now, so long as we neglect to heed this message, and rest satisfied with a theory of the truth, without feeling the Spirit's power. May the Lord help us to see our wretched condition, and buy gold, white raiment and eye-salve, that we may be prepared to stand in the conflict before us.
The promised inheritance to those that overcome, never looked more desirable to me than now. And though the way be thorny, and self-crucifying, it is just as it should be. I feel that with God's people I can toil, and suffer if need be, if I may be permitted to share with them in the consummation of their hope.

E. M. HUTCHINS

Panton, Vt., Jan. 25th, 1857.