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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 4, 1859

Letters.

"Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another."

From Bro. Clarke.

BRO. SMITH: There are in this vicinity four families of us, trying to walk in the truth. On Sabbath we meet and attend to Bible exercises, exhortations, singing, and prayer, and we think the Lord meets with us, and blesses us in so doing.

But when the messengers pass through and preach at Lovett's Grove we try to attend there, and we feel very thankful to God for the privilege. We felt especially favored to hear the word as preached by Bro. Waggoner, at his visit to Lovett's Grove, and were reproved and strengthened by his instructions.

I felt, for one, that the sword of the Spirit touched me in many a tender place, and many a sharp twinge of conscience told how surely the arrow was pointed and driven home. And there let those sharp arrows rankle until the physician Jesus may give his word to set the captive free; until he shall say, Be thou made whole.

I would exhort all who are hearing this third message to remember our instructions. Let us ponder upon them, lest Satan catch away the good seed, as the fowls gather the seed by the way-side. This message is indeed terrible to the heedless and worldly, while it is all beauty and sweetness to the hearty receiver of the straight testimony.

With much love, yours. Jos. CLARKE.

July, 1859.