p. 206 | To the Wise by Jesse Dorcas

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

To the Wise.

By Jesse Dorcas

FAMILY WORSHIP. O, how important, and, to the truly wise, delightful duty is this! May I speak a word, and say to those who believe in "present truth," let us not neglect this present duty.

Perilous times have come, and trouble is coming, is near! let us therefore do all to stand. The two-horned beast's decree will soon go forth, requiring us to receive the mark of the beast; in plain words, to keep Sunday. Have we a martyr spirit? if not, let us get it without delay.

Take, for example, David. He prayed, kneeling down, three times a day. His God whom he continually served, delivered him." See Dan. vi, 10-16.

We have reason also to believe, that, on the account of David's punctuality in his private and social duties, God honored, and delivered him, in his public walks. See Ps. lv, 17, 18.

The Elias of these days of peril has come, and it will soon be seen who are following the Lord, and who Baal. The fallen down altars must be erected, family devotion must be seen again in the earth. See Mal. iv, 5, 6; Luke i, 16, 17.

TOBACCO. My very soul is grieved to see those who make loud professions of faith in every thing that is right, wallowing in this filthy habit. I can no longer bear it without speaking out with all that abhorrence that it deserves, which I am allowed by the great Apostle. See Rom. xii, 9. "Abhor that which is evil." Parents sometimes are grieved to see their girls get the vain trinkets that the devil is pleased with; and some, at the same time have their mouth filled with a plug of filthy tobacco, or a pipe!

"I feel very jealous for the Lord God of hosts;" and for "Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, nor rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as a lamp that burneth."

"Nought is an evil, though it lay Thy dearest idol low, Until contending with the dart, Thy proud and unsubmissive heart Decides to make it so." Jesse Dorcas. Gilboa, Ohio, Sept. 28th, 1857.