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Healing at Canaan

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 7, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 12, No. 20.

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Healing at Canaan

By J. L. Hakes

From Bro. Hakes.

Bro. Smith: It is with pleasure that I now take my pen to give in my testimony on the side of truth. I am still trying to keep God's holy commandments and the faith of Jesus. I feel truly that the Sabbath is a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable, and that in keeping it there is great reward.
The first and second Sabbaths of the present month I spent with the little church at Canaan. We had a precious time. It was a time that will not be forgotten by God's honest people. On the first Sabbath we met at the house of Srs. Eliza and Elizabeth Phelps. While reading a chapter to commence the worship of God, his Spirit seemed suddenly to come upon us. We had a precious, melting time. The Spirit of confession was upon us all. Our faults were confessed one to another, and we prayed one for another that we might be healed. In the afternoon God met with us in a wonderful manner. In answer to prayer Sr. Eliza Phelps was healed. She has been bound by Satan so that she could not walk for over eighteen years. During this whole time she could not bear her weight upon her feet, hardly for a moment, except by enduring the most excruciating pain. It is about six years since she gave up taking medicine, fully satisfied that she could gain no relief by using it. Last Spring she turned her feet from the traditions of men to the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus, and now she is walking and praising God.
O how good God is! How mighty is his power! Now we can see by this that God is willing to hear and answer the prayers of those that love him and keep his commandments.
Come, brethren, let us arise and gird on the whole armor, that we may be able to fight the battles of the Lord manfully. Let us now put forth every effort to advance the cause of God—let us be willing to sacrifice for the cause of Christ. Remember what he sacrificed for us, how he left the realms of glory, yea, the very bosom of his Father, and took upon him our nature, was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin, how he suffered and died the ignominious death upon the cross, and all this too, that we might have eternal life through him; and if this is not enough to arouse us to action, remember the scene in the garden of Gethsemane, where our Saviour prayed until he sweat great drops of blood. It was not for himself he prayed, but it was for you and me that he struggled so earnestly. And if he is so interested for us, should we not be interested for ourselves? Yes, we must be, or we shall be lost.
Says the faithful and true Witness, I would that thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
O brethren and sisters, let us heed this counsel, and buy of him the tried gold and white raiment that we may be clothed, that the shame of our nakedness do not appear. Let us buy the eye-salve that we may see our wretched, blind and naked condition. Let us watch and pray lest we enter into temptation, and that day come upon us unawares. Watch, then, for ye know not in what hour your Lord will come.
From your brother in hope of eternal life. J. L. Hakes. East Granville, Mass., Sept., 1858.