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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1859

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 14, No. 6.

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R. S. DURFEE

By R. S. Durfee

From Bro. Durfee.

BRO. SMITH: I want to say that when I consider the preciousness of the present truth and that the message is onward and that others are striving to be zealous and repent and buy the gold tried in the fire, and can bear testimony of the presence of the Holy Spirit in their meetings, it makes my heart long to be with them. And when I read in the Review, communications from those deprived of these inestimable privileges, I feel to join heartily in their request to be remembered by those who are permitted to meet with those of like precious faith, in their prayers, that the Lord of the harvest will send forth more laborers into the vineyard, so that the lonely ones may hear the truth and be encouraged to press on through the trials that surround them. I cannot help feeling deeply when I think of those that have made high professions of the present truth and have heard the solemn warning to the Laodiceans, but are to all appearance uninterested, and living in the neglect of duty, both public and private. When I think of the time in which we are living, that the world are receiving the last notes of warning before the decree goes forth, He that is unjust let him be unjust still &c., it seems to me that of all the world those will have the greatest reason to regret unfaithfulness, who have heard the third angel's message and professed it and finally failed to secure eternal life. The Review is before me with the cheering intelligence of the prosperity of the precious cause in other places, and I would be glad to add to the same if it was so that I could, but I cannot. I also would be glad to do something to help forward the cause, if it were in my power, but it is almost an impossibility at present to obtain the necessaries of life, still I hope that in the providence of God I shall be able to do something yet. It seems to me that I could hardly enjoy the blessedness of a house in the New Jerusalem with the reflection that I had done nothing for my Saviour when he had done so much for me.

R. S. DURFEE

Millville, Ill.