JONATHAN CHASE by Jonathan Chase

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 12, 1860

JONATHAN CHASE

By Jonathan Chase

From Bro. Chase.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: Through the kind care of our heavenly Father I am permitted to live and to enjoy some of the blessings of the present life, and by faith behold, and take hold on, the promises of God as brought to view in his word.

I think, brethren and sisters, that too many of us have been too backward in writing. We should write often, and try to stir up each others' pure minds by way of remembrance. We are living in perilous times, when some of the professed ministers of Christ, deacons and official members of churches are speaking out with a dragonic voice against those who keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, and are using their influence against the truth. But God's truth is a unit and will prevail. Let us hold on to the arm of the Lord.

My heart has been pained of late when I have seen abuse and ill treatment manifested against a humble child of God because she kept the commandments of God, by her own father, and that too, a deacon of the church. May God help us, my brethren and sisters, to have on the whole armor and stand fast in the faith of the gospel of the kingdom of God.

I thank God for the privileges that I have had of late of hearing the message of the third angel proclaimed, I trust in the demonstration of the Spirit and in power. I believe the Lord sent Bro. Sanborn this way to proclaim the last message of mercy to a dying world; and I thank God that instead of being alone as I have been for a few years past, I have now a companion in the truth with me. Praise the Lord!

In hope of eternal life when Jesus comes.

JONATHAN CHASE

North Leeds, Columbia Co., Wis.