Note from Bro. Dorcas by Jesse Dorcas

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 17, 1858

Note from Bro. Dorcas.

By Jesse Dorcas

Bro. SMITH: We wish to say to the brethren and sisters that Bro. Loughborough has arrived in this State. We wish to say that we feel in this appointment that God has greatly favored us. And now, my brethren and sisters be assured that God will see to his own work that it is not left to needless and just reproach. O that the Lord would give us a spirit of free-will sacrifice. A reference to one of our strong texts for the perpetuity of the weekly Sabbath will show us that other duties that abide all dispensations are as clearly enjoined as the observance of the Lord's Rest-day.

See Leviticus xxiii, 38. "Beside the Sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your free-will offerings, which ye give unto the Lord."

I feel free to say, from letters received from different brethren, that there has never been so strong an impulse in Ohio for pressing the present work of the Third Angel's Message strait forward, as at present. My brethren, I have of late passed through divers temptations, but now I count it all joy.

Yours patiently waiting for Christ,

JESSE DORCAS.

Fremont, Ohio.