JOSEPH NORTH by Joseph North

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 23, 1857

JOSEPH NORTH

By Joseph North

From Bro. North.

BRO. SMITH : Your little sheet is a welcome messenger. I esteem it above all other papers combined. I still remain a believer in the movements of 1843-4, and I am with you in all the present truths. But I feel that there is much for me to overcome to be like the pattern. I want to heed the true Witness and buy gold tried in the fire, and white raiment that I may be clothed, and anoint my eyes that I may see myself as the Lord sees me. O that the Lord would help me to repent of my lukewarmness that the Saviour may come in and sup with me and I with him. By the help of the Lord I will strive in my feeble way to gain that inheritance that is prepared for the people of God: an everlasting possession that is undefiled, and that fadeth not away—the kingdom under the whole heavens. O what riches! what riches! I praise the Lord for truth! How important it is in this time of peril to understand the position we occupy.

"We want the truth on every point, We want it too to practice by; Do thou, O Lord, our eyes anoint, With a fresh unction from on high."

I am aware that the great day of the Lord is near, that it hasteth greatly. I want to be prepared to enter in at the door of the sheep-fold, which is by the way of the commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus.

Dear brother, be not weary in well doing. The Lord will reward you for your labors of love.

Yours in the blessed hope.

JOSEPH NORTH

Middletown, Ct., July 5th, 1857.