Looking for Christ’s Appearing
By A. & H. Lanphear
From Bro. & Sr. Lanphear.
BRO. SMITH: We are glad to hear of the prosperity of the Review and Herald, and it is with pleasure, and we trust with profit, that we peruse its pages of truth from week to week. May the Lord prosper the cause in which you are engaged, in sending forth light on the subject of the Sabbath, and the near approach of the blessed Saviour, our Redeemer, who died to redeem us from sin, rose again for our justification, ascended to heaven to prepare a place for his redeemed ones; and who now is in the heavenly Sanctuary, making intercession for sinners, and finishing up his last work of mercy for dying men. Soon he will leave the Sanctuary, and no longer plead the sinner's cause; probation will cease, and he that is filthy will be filthy still. The wicked will call for the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from the presence of the Lord; but they must receive their final doom and be punished with an everlasting destruction from his presence, and from the glory of his power. But to those who are looking for and loving his appearing, will he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. May the glad day hasten on when we shall see Jesus coming in the clouds of heaven to gather his ransomed ones home. Then we shall behold his face, rise to meet him in the air, and so ever be with the Lord. Holy and blessed thought! Yours hoping for immortality.
A. & H. LANPHEAR.
Nile, N. Y., Nov., 1857.