Choosing the Despised People
Bro. Alfred Miner writes from Brookfield, N. Y.: "It was not until of late that I was made willing to unite myself with the despised people that are looking for the second coming of our Saviour; but I endeavored to count the cost; and though I might draw around me friends that deny the coming of our Saviour, and worldlings, yet in erecting this tower of unrighteousness, I must lose all hopes of eternal life, and all the promises which God has made to his people. But by coming out I must leave a proud church who keep not the Sabbath of the Lord, I must give up my name on earth, I must meet the disapprobation of friends and relatives; yet I retain the bright prospect of enjoying the smiles of God, and making Jesus my friend, and the hope of putting on life and immortality at the resurrection of the just."