COMMUNICATIONS by David Arnold

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

COMMUNICATIONS.

By David Arnold

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

From Bro. Arnold.

BRO. SMITH:—Permit me through the Review to make a confession of some of the wrongs of my past course, which have been too public to heal by private confession.

I have been slow to see the wrongs which I have done, and feel that I have great reason to be thankful that the Lord and the church have had patience and forbearance with my tardy course in setting things right. I now see that by a process of human reasoning I have not only darkened my own mind, but have shed a dark influence over others, to their spiritual injury.

I have also, while trying to set things in order in the church, created disorder and confusion. In this state of things I was sent last May to the general conference at Battle Creek. While there the Lord saw fit in mercy to give the brethren there assembled light in reference to my true position, and also manifested through one of the gifts of the holy Spirit my condition as it stood in the sight of a holy God, all of which I then fully received as direct from the fountain of light, but have been slow to see and realize its full import. But through the tender mercy of God and the persevering labor and patience of the church in this section, I think I can now not only say I believe what was shown concerning me to be true, but that I can feel and realize it to be so.

And while I would humbly and heartily confess all my wrongs, I would say to all who have been injured by my past course, especially Bro. White and Bro. Rhodes, Will you forgive me? And now permit me to say in conclusion, that I feel to take some humble place in the church of Christ, and try by carefully studying the humble pattern, "not to think more highly of myself than I ought to think."

Your unworthy brother striving to overcome. DAVID ARNOLD. Fulton, N. Y.