The Laodicean Message and Repentance
By C. Davis
BRO. SMITH: It may not be out of the path of duty for me to write a few lines for the encouragement of the scattered remnant. The message of the faithful and true Witness to us is meat in due season. I fully believe that it applies to the Sabbath-keepers. The true Witness says "I know thy works." My works were not righteous. I had been building, become some worldly-minded, and by my works was denying the faith I professed; but I thank the Lord that when the message came I felt rebuked, and that I must get out of that place. The way has been opened for me to sell that I had, to obey the testimony of Jesus in this, and to once more feel that I am a stranger and a pilgrim here, having neither houses nor lands, nor any certain dwelling place. We must keep all the Testimony of Jesus with the Commandments of God. My prayer is that the Lord would help me to be zealous and repent of all my wrongs, that I with all the saints may be found without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; for the Lord will have a pure church, and by his help I will be among them. C. DAVIS.
Paris, Me., May 2d, 1857.