Report from the Lincklaen Church
By Benj. Hostler
Bro. Smith: Again through the tender mercies of God I am permitted to address a few lines through the Review to the saints scattered through this extensive country. I feel to thank the Lord that he gave us our being in these last days, and that we ever heard the last message of mercy and inclined our hearts to receive the present truth, to keep all the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus. Dear brethren and sisters, be encouraged to persevere unto the end. It is true, obedience to God has, and is still, subjecting us to many trials and privations; but in a little while if we are faithful we shall come off more than conquerers, and have a right to the tree of life and enter in through the gates into the city. Of the little church in Lincklaen, which has waded through many trials, some are still trying to live and be prepared for the coming of the Lord. They hold their meetings each Sabbath afternoon in the meeting house of the Seventh-day Baptists, where Bro. Poole preaches to the latter in the morning, and meets with the Advent brethren in the afternoon. Also a few of the Baptist brethren and sisters come in with us. May the Lord meet with them and lead them to see and embrace present truth. One sister, from the preaching of Bro. F. Wheeler last Winter saw and embraced present truth, and meets constantly with us, sister Jellina Cartwright. Bro. Jas. E. N. Backus, of Utica, N. Y., Agt. of the Chenango Bible Society, was distributing Bibles through this section last Summer, when we conversed with him on the Sabbath and the soon coming of the Lord. He has since embraced the Sabbath, and the Bible Society have discharged him for embracing that truth which he was sowing broadcast to the people, and have taken away his agency. He now wants to know more fully the way of truth. Dear brethren, I feel to bless the Lord. Let us take encouragement and proclaim the truth whether men will hear or whether they will forbear, and let us be careful to live out these truths daily. Yours striving for the inheritance of the saints. Lincklaen, N. Y., Aug. 3d, 1858. Benj. Hostler.