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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 4, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 10, No. 5.

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LEANDER M. JONES

By Leander M. Jones

From Bro. Jones.

BRO. SMITH: My heart is often made to rejoice while reading the cheering communications from the scattered flock. I am glad, dear brethren and sisters, that while on your heavenly journey, you occasionally stop by the way to write a friendly epistle for the Review.
Our journey is almost over. The victory will soon be won. I feel solemn while penning these lines. The last notes of warning are now being given, and the work is to be cut short in righteousness. What a trying scene there is just before us! and in the language of the Prophet I ask, Who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart.
How glad I am that I have been led to see the necessity of giving up the world and all its pleasures. The cheering prospect of standing on mount Zion with the hundred and forty-four thousand, has in a measure unglued my affections from this world. I am determined to overcome, that I may finally have right to the tree of life and enter in through the gates into the city.
I do rejoice that this truth has made me free. Solemn as it is, there is freedom in it. We are not left to grope our way in darkness. No, no; God is in this work, and I believe it with all my soul.
Come brethren, let us rally around the standard of truth. God has something for us to do. We must try and be the means of saving some. Have we not fathers or mothers that we want to go with us? or sisters or brothers that we would have saved? If so, send them the Review, and such books as are best calculated to enlighten their minds, and ask God's blessing to go with them. I believe that many are to be brought into the truth by reading the Review, where they cannot be reached by any other means. O God, awake thy people to the solemn warning of the Third Angel's Message.
Yours in hope of life.

LEANDER M. JONES

Monterey, Mich., May 19th, 1857.