Eight Keeping the Commandments
By Samuel Haskell
BRO. SMITH: I have had a lonely time here for three years past, but the Lord has opened the eyes of some of my neighbors, and we now number eight souls that are trying to keep the commandments. We meet together and strengthen one another in prayer and talking of the goodness of God. We live in an out of the way place, and are not blest with the privilege of having preaching, but we serve a God who is not confined to one place, but is everywhere present. Blessed promise, that where two or three are gathered together in his name there he is in their midst. The brethren and sisters in Gilboa and Green Spring are getting wide awake. It does me good to go their meetings. It makes me think of meetings twenty or twenty-five years ago; you then could hear church members shout and sing as if they had religion; but since 1844, where are the good old lively meetings in the professed churches? None are so blind as those who will not see, none so deaf as those who will not hear. Let us often think on Eccl. xii, 12, 13, and treasure their sentiment in our hearts. In hope of eternal life. SAMUEL HASKELL. Ridgeland, Ohio, June 1858.