B. F. COLVIN by B. F. Colvin

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 25, 1858

B. F. COLVIN

By B. F. Colvin

From Bro. Colvin.

BRO. SMITH: I am by the blessing of God still able to look forward to the saints' reward. I still feel (and hope I ever may) to apply the testimony of the faithful and true Witness to myself, as contained in Rev. iii. I feel my utter dependence on the Lord, and while others say unto the living, Seek unto the dead, I can say in the language of the Scriptures, Should not a people seek unto their God? I think they should. I think they are, and that they are doing so by keeping his commandments, and to Jesus, by keeping his testimonies. We see that the Scriptures are shamefully perverted by the common teachers of the day, who teach men that they have immortal souls; but the Scriptures say, God only hath immortality. They also tell us that a dead man knows more than a living one; but the Word tells us that the dead know not anything. The Scriptures counsel us to seek for glory, honor and immortality,

and they inform us that when Jesus comes, and the dead are raised and the living saints changed, they then go to their reward.

O for the glorious time to come! I have long looked for it. We shall not have to look much longer. We have passed the signs which the Saviour said should come in the sun, moon and stars. There is now distress of nations with perplexity, men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.

Popular teachers of the day tell us that the first day of the week is the Sabbath. They have the hardihood to rob the fourth command, and transfer its sanctity to the first day of the week, and thereby cause men to honor the pope and his decrees more than the law of God; but the Lord will have a people that shall honor him by keeping his commands.

O brethren and sisters, let us look to Jesus our great High Priest, who is now pleading for us before the throne of God, and is ready and willing to grant us his Spirit that we may overcome and be prepared to stand before him with pure hearts and clean hands. The time is soon to come when it will be said, He that is holy, let him be holy still; he that is righteous, let him be righteous still; he that is filthy, let him be filthy still; and the seven last plagues will be poured upon a guilty and rebellious world.

Yours striving to overcome.

B. F. COLVIN

Bingham, Pa., Jan. 29th, 1858.