L E T T E R S by A. H. Daniels

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1858

L E T T E R S .

By A. H. Daniels

“Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another.”

From Bro. Daniels.

Bro. Smith : We are growing stronger and stronger in the faith of the Third Angel's Message, and we feel thankful to our heavenly Father that he has been so good as to spare us unto this present time, and is giving us the privilege of keeping his Sabbath and his law in this country free from any incumbrance whatever. It is a great blessing, which we do not prize as we should. I promised myself that if I was called upon to preach, I would try to do so by the help of the Lord ; and about eight miles from here, in Thompson Valley, they heard I was an Adventist, and asked me to come over and preach to them. I went, and think the result will be good. Some of the most respectable families have acknowledged the truth, and I have had a full congregation almost every time. They still want me to come, and I intend to as soon as I can ; but I have much to do, and no books to help me. I gave away all I had before I came here. They need publications, and if I had them they would buy them. They also need the Review ; for that is the best preacher they can have, except the Bible.

While reading in Review No. 17, of the conduct of J. M. Stephenson at the Crane's Grove tent meeting I was reminded of the passage in Luke xix, 22: "Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee." I well recollect that when he preached the Third Angel's Message, if any one disturbed him he would say they were no gentlemen to disturb any meeting whatever, and if they did not want to hear, they should stay away.

I have, from reading, at length become convinced of the truthfulness of Sister White's views ; and I believe they should be placed in the hands of every believer in the Third Angel's Message. But in reference to them we should be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves. Place them in their hands, and if they will investigate the truth they will believe ; for they will speak for themselves. The Bible is enough to talk about and we ought to talk of it more and more as we see the day approaching, and I think it is not far distant.

We are the only family who keep the Sabbath, within a circuit of twenty or thirty miles. Our nearest neighbor is half a mile distant, the next three miles, and so on, until we get to Thompson Valley, eight miles from here ; but the prospect is fair, and I believe many will keep the Sabbath in this part of the country. A Roman Catholic, (a very smart man for a Catholic,) told me the other day that no man had any right to keep Sunday but the Catholics ; for the church set that day apart, and he could prove it. Said he: "We don't call it Sabbath ; the Lord's day is what we call it ; the Sabbath is Saturday ; that is for the Jews."

My prayer is that we may all live so as to be sheltered from the seven last plagues.

A. H. DANIELS.

Sumner, Wis., Oct. 1858.