Extracts from Letters

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 19, 1857

Extracts from Letters.

BRO. John Stowell writes from Washington, N. H., March 3d, 1857: "I feel truly thankful for that spiritual food we received here at the Conference, Jan. 23d and 24th. Brn. Hutchins, Sperry, Phillips, Pierce and Litchfield were present, although it was the coldest and most drifting time we have had this Winter, so that our brethren from abroad in N. H. did not meet with us, except Bro. Stephen Smith, of Unity. How good it was to see him again broken down before the Lord. Others caught the weeping, confessing spirit, and began to be zealous to repent, and it almost seemed that the ark of the Lord was again coming into our midst. Praise the Lord! I hope we shall by the grace of God be enabled to keep it with us now all our journey through.

"It begins to look like a short work now; and what is done must be done quickly. I want the eye-salve, and white raiment, or in other words, to be like those waiting the return of the Lord from the wedding. O that all the remnant were now fully awake, realizing their situation and the time in which we live! Then the loud cry would soon be heard, and heeded by all the honest. Even so let it be.

"May the grace of God be with you and all the servants of the Lord, and may there be such a living cry put up in faith by all the Church of God that the remnant may be ready to hail the glad day."