Awaiting the Lord’s Coming
By J. Ponfret
Bro. Smith: I write to say that my companion and myself are still going on our way rejoicing in the present truth, and the blessed hope of soon seeing our glorious Redeemer coming in the clouds of heaven. I feel a kind of anxious waiting and desire for the Lord to come; my prayer continually is that the Lord would preserve me blameless to that time. I desire to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, humbly walking in charity as becometh all that name the name of Christ. It has rejoiced my soul to hear that the Sabbath question and the soon coming of the Lord are being declared in other countries. A nephew of mine, a young man, says that in the Baptist Sunday school (England) where he attended, the superintendent of that school openly declared and taught that Sunday was not the Sabbath of the Lord, but the day commonly called Saturday was the Sabbath; and in another case an astronomer openly lectured from the prophecies and the signs in the heavens that before long time would be forever closed. He is now in jail for this crime, and it is alleged that he has driven some mad with this strange doctrine. I feel for one like girding on the armor of the gospel and trying to prepare for that awful event. The little band at Canandaigua with which I meet are lifting up their heads, for we think redemption draws nigh. Pray for us brethren and sisters that we may be found faithful with all the Israel of God when the last trump shall sound.