The Gilboa Believers by J. B. Merritt

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 26, 1858

The Gilboa Believers

By J. B. Merritt

From Bro. Merritt.

BRO. SMITH: I love to read the Review and hear from the dear saints scattered abroad¹; I also believe it advocates the truth. The little band at Gilhoa are still trying to advance in the cause of the dear Redeemer. Although some have turned back again, we meet regularly on the Lord's Sabbath, and try to encourage one another, and we trust that the Spirit of the Lord is with us, as our meetings are generally interesting and encouraging.

As for myself, when I review the past and contrast it with the present, I have to exclaim, Truly the Lord has been merciful unto me, in not cutting me off as a cumberer of the ground. After professing to believe and read the Bible for over twenty years, I am not a little astonished that I never saw the truth as it now shines on the sacred page. I now see plainly that if I do not arise and escape for my life, the storm of wrath will overtake me. But I feel to bless the Lord that there is a name given by which we can be saved, and I praise the name of our God that I feel a disposition to do all of the commandments, that I may stand acquitted in the day when the Son of man shall come on the white cloud, with all the holy angels with him, to gather his elect from the four quarters of the globe.

J. B. MERRITT. Gilboa, Ohio, Aug., 1858.