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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 10, No. 12.

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LETTERS.

By R. M. Thurston

"Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another"

From Sister Thurston.

BRO. SMITH : Pardon me while I bear testimony to the present truth, through your most worthy organ of religious instruction and encouragement. My husband has taken your paper for many years, and prized it next to his Bible.
How often, the Lord only knows, has its humble teaching reproved my own unfaithfulness. I have had line upon line until my heart had well nigh become an adamant. Reluctantly I accompanied my devoted companion to the Tent-meeting at Mackford; trembling the while, lest I should be obliged to yield to former convictions on the Sabbath question. Truly the evidences presented by Bro. Loughborough, were so irresistibly convincing, that a still small voice beseechingly whispered, "Choose ye this day whom ye will serve."
How forcibly, how reprovingly, that simple injunction, "Follow me," sank into the deep recesses of my heart. Will my long-neglected Saviour give me henceforth apostolic faith and submission? Though my neighbors may call me a Jewess, and my friends think me deluded, I mean in the strength of Israel's God to search for light, as for hid treasures, also to walk therein, that I stumble not, neither become a block of offense in the way of him with whom I journey through life, hoping, hand in hand, to meet our dear Saviour in triumph.
R. M. THURSTON.
Marquette, Wis.