Note from Bro. Hull by M. Hull

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 2, 1858

Note from Bro. Hull.

By M. Hull

[The following is rather a hard picture. If it is from the fruits of anything that we are to judge of its character, we are constrained to say that the Age-to-come doctrine is a very bad tree.—Ed.]

Bro. SMITH: I find myself in a hard place when I am among no-law, Age-to-comeites. I have spent several days among them since my return to Ind. I find with the best of them religion is but a secondary matter. I have the first family altar yet to find among them; and indeed many of them oppose public prayer entirely. Tobacco, joking, jesting, and opposition to the law of God, seem to be the main productions of the soil of "future probationism." Yet I thank God that they are not all so far gone that the Third Angel's Message cannot get hold of them. Some of them see a beauty in it, acknowledge it, and try to obey it. My father, mother-in-law, and some of my brothers and sisters see a beauty in the truth, and have resolved to obey it. M. Hull. Russiaville, Ind., Nov. 8th, 1858.