Returning to the Review
By H. C. S. Carus
Bro. Smith, Dear Sir, I inclose one dollar for the Review. You will observe that I am an old subscriber and have had the honor of a slight acquaintance with you. You will doubtless remember the time and cause of my discontinuing the paper, but my loss has been greater than yours. Although I have been trying to serve God and keep his commandments, I am greatly behind the times. I have lost much valuable information. I have heard but little from the brethren and people of God since I gave up the Review. But Bro. Rathbun called on me a few days ago and staid over night. We talked of former days and blessings, and when he went home he sent me several Nos. of the Review Vol. 14. When I got them I devoured their contents like a man who had been without bread for many days. I read, I wept and praised God that the message was still going and that some were embracing the truth as it is in Jesus. Now may God forgive me my folly in starving myself so long and doing without your weekly visitor. I have kept the Sabbath ever since I first heard Bro. Cornell preach on that subject, seven or eight years ago. I am alone here in this place there being no others who keep the Sabbath but myself, but the best of all is God is with me. I love his truth and mean to try to keep his testimony. Brethren pray for me that my faith fail not, and that I may meet you in peace at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Yours in gospel of peace. Walled Lake, Mich., July, 1859.