WM. LAWTON by Wm. Lawton

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 21, 1858

WM. LAWTON

By Wm. Lawton

From Bro. Lawton.

BRO. SMITH: I feel to praise the Lord for the blessed privileges that I have in hearing from those that are trying to be zealous in repenting. That they may in fact be overcomers, and be permitted to sit down on the throne with Jesus, is my prayer. The Review is a messenger that brings good tidings. Praise the Lord!

In reading "Testimony for the Church No. 4," on page 34, where it says, "Some, I saw, did not participate in this work of agonizing and pleading; they seemed indifferent and careless," I did feel to acknowledge before my heavenly Father, when I read it, that I have not been as zealous in repenting as I should have been; and that I have not been as much engaged in agonizing and pleading as I should have been. I saw by reading the Testimony that the angels of God left those that were indifferent and careless, and went to the aid of those earnest, praying ones.

I have made up my mind to be more engaged in agonizing and pleading for assistance from God than I ever have been. I expect I shall be called a fanatic, if I am zealous in trying to serve God; but I have made up my mind to heed not the cry of fanaticism, but seek earnestly for help from God, that I may act in his fear, and not in the fear of man. It will not be any worse for me to be called a fanatic, if I am in earnest in trying to serve God, than it was for the friends of Jesus on the day of Pentecost, [Acts ii. 13.] to be accused of being full of new wine, when in fact they were filled with the Spirit of God. My prayer is that I may so repent of all my sins, and be so humbled at the feet of Jesus, that I may be more fully baptized with the Holy Spirit than I ever have been.

Your brother.

WM. LAWTON

West Winfield, N. Y.