A Band Bound for the Kingdom
By Editor
Bro. D. Richmond writes from Green Bush Mich., May 8th 1857: "I wish to be prompt in paying for my paper, the pay for it seems so trifling compared with what its true value is to me, that it seems if I delay the pay I do not appreciate it, while one letter from a dear brother or sister every week is ample pay for the full price of the paper. I would that I was capable of edifying my dear brothers and sisters as I have been cheered and edified by their communications. "There is quite a band of us here who meet together on the Sabbath, and who I trust are bound for the kingdom. The Lord is very merciful to us, and we thank and praise him for sending his messengers here to show us our dying state, and to stir us up to the necessity of heeding the counsel of the faithful and true Witness. May God help us to arise and trim our lamps before the bridegroom comes. O let us hunger and thirst after righteousness and we shall be filled. Let us strive for the bond of perfectness, and then shall we all be one in Christ Jesus. "That such weak worms of the dust as we are, may so live, and purify these earthly temples that we may be just such beings as God would have to live with him in his pure and celestial kingdom is our prayer. My dear brethren and sisters we shall there know each other as children of one family, and there shall we see our Creator and our Saviour face to face, and not be destroyed by their brightness, for these bodies will be raised spiritual bodies, and this corruption shall have put on incorruption."