A. GLEASON by A. Gleason

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 24, 1859

A. GLEASON

By A. Gleason

From Bro. Gleason.

BRO. SMITH: It has been about six or seven months since I commenced to keep the commandments of God. I left my business in Toledo, Ohio, and moved to Hillsdale that I might enjoy the society of commandment-keepers. I have been at work in Adrian this Winter in the midst of Spiritualists and scoffers of the last days. It buoys my spirits up to meet with the Lord's dear people now and then, and it increases my hope that Jesus soon is coming, when I see the powerful workings of Satan.

Last First-day a man from Boston, a trance-speaker, spoke in the Odd Fellows' hall, in Adrian, and is to speak there to-day. He advertises to heal the sick, &c., &c., and many wonders they are performing in that place.

O brethren, should not these things cause us to make a desperate struggle to overcome Satan and his charms, and get ready to meet our King, soon to come. O, it can't be long! Time's wasting sands are almost run, and Satan's kingdom will soon come to an end. "Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further, for their folly shall be manifest unto all men as theirs also was."

The Spiritualists say, Lo, here is Christ, he has come through the mysterious rappings, &c.; but says Paul, Ye, brethren, are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief. In Acts i, 10, 11, we are told the manner in which we are to look for him. I desire to make no greater effort than to get ready for what is soon to come on this people. Let us plead constantly with the Lord that our faith and strength fail not. "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne." Rev. iii, 21.

I desire an interest in the prayers of the saints that I may be counted worthy to have a shelter under the covering that the Lord is preparing for his people in the day of his fierce wrath; and that I may stand on the sea of glass with the 144000 that shall be redeemed from among men. "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."

Yours striving for an immortal crown.

A. GLEASON

Hillsdale, Mich., March, 1859.