Extracts from Letters

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 29, 1858

Extracts from Letters.

Sr. M. Capin writes from Clarkson, N. Y., Apr. 11, 1858: "I have felt that it was good to be afflicted, and can say with the Psalmist, 'He knoweth our frame: he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field so he flourisheth; but the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him. To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.'"

Bro. D. W. Johnson writes from Gaines, Mich., Apr., 1858: "I feel to rejoice in the Third Angel's Message. Once I could not understand the Bible: now it is a plain book to me."

Bro. & Sr. Brown write from Berryton, Ills., Apr. 11th, 1858: We have had no cheering word of encouragement for nearly two years, excepting through the Review. There are none here that keep the Sabbath besides ourselves, and it is very lonely. We wish that some of the messengers would find their way to us. The people here are mostly professors, but very ignorant of the Bible. They seem to think a farm is all that is needful."

Bro. T. Hale writes from Hubbardston, Mass., April 17th, 1858: "I feel thankful that I was ever permitted to hear the truth as it is in the Third Angel's Message, and O that it may work deliverance for me, that when the latter rain shall come, I may share its blessing. I feel that it is sweet work to believe and love. It heals, delights and strengthens. May God help me to overcome, and be gathered with the righteous."