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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 13, No. 1.

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ELDAD INMAN

By Eldad Inman

From Bro. Inman.

Bro. Smith: I feel a deep interest in the truths advocated through the Review, especially those that point out our duty to God, to our fellow-men and ourselves, and show the condition of the church in her fallen state, and the necessity of the people of the Lord coming out of her that they be not partakers of her plagues.
I rejoice to hear that the cause of truth is rising notwithstanding the powerful opposition it meets. I believe it will triumph over error, and he that heeds it will overcome and stand on the sea of glass with the Lamb. We are striving to keep all the commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus, and heed the counsel of the faithful and true Witness, to buy the tried gold, white raiment, and eye-salve. The Lord blesses us in our feeble efforts to do his will, for which I praise his holy name. I can say with the rest of the brethren and sisters, we meet with great opposition here from professed christians. They go so far as to call us infidels, scoffers and materialists, because we take the Bible as it reads, and believe in a material God, a material heaven, and that material saints will dwell with him there. Christ says, Blessed are ye when men shall revile and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake; rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven.
Brethren and sisters, let us look well to ourselves, and see how we live before those who believe not. Let all our conversation be seasoned with grace, and we be ever ready to give a reason for our hope. I bless God that I ever heard what is termed present truth, the Third Angel's Message, and have been enabled to see a beauty in it. O how I love the truth! I love to hear about it, for it brings to light many things that have been hid for many years. I see the need of a closer walk with God, a heavenly-mindedness, and of being dead to the world and alive to him. I want to lose sight of self and the world, and throw all upon the altar. My greatest desire is to be a christian; but if I am one I am the least of all. I want to follow Christ through evil as well as good report. Paul says if we be Christ's then are we Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. I want to be an heir of that kingdom, and when Christ comes put on immortality, and stand with the 144000 on Mt. Zion.

ELDAD INMAN

Wayland, Mich., Nov. 7th, 1858.