p. 207 | Extracts from Letters

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 29, 1857

Extracts from Letters.

SISTER Lucy Button writes from Leonardsville, N. Y., Oct. 11th, 1857: "Bro. Smith: I feel united to the little flock in ties that are stronger than death. With them I am willing to have my name cast out as evil for the truth's sake. With them 'I am willing to pass through All earthly tribulation And count it my just due.'

"Myself and companion are very thankful for a view of our Laodicean condition, by which we find ourselves very miserable and destitute, compared with what we might have possessed had we lived every moment at the feet of Jesus. We have been trying to buy the gold tried in the fire, or what to us seems similar, that faith which was once delivered to the saints, such as Daniel possessed in the lion's den, and which enabled the three worthies to pass through the fire unhurt, and commanded the form of the fourth which was like unto the Son of God.

"We have been striving to do right in the sight of God, that we may be clothed with a garment of righteousness, that the shame of our nakedness may not appear. We have also been striving to anoint our eyes with eye-salve that we may have a discernment of spirits, that we may discern the first approach of sin in any or all of its phases and may watch against the wiles of the enemy, and be enabled to flee in season to Christ who will enable us to overcome through his own most precious blood.

"O how thankful we are that the Saviour has not left us yet. He might justly have spued us out of his mouth, but he still seems to be waiting to be gracious. O what a compassionate Saviour! How precious when the Saviour will condescend for one moment to come into our hearts and sup with us, and allow us to sup with him! We intend never to give up the cause; we mean to overcome that we may have a right to the tree of life and enter in through the gates into the city. Pray for us."