LETTERS | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 26, 1860

LETTERS.

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

From Bro. and Sr. Erb.

BRO. SMITH: Although strangers to you, yet we hope to be united in the same faith. We have not had the privilege of meeting any of the same precious faith since we came to Minnesota, with the exception of one family, and they live some fifteen miles from here. We expected that Bro. Ingraham would come this way, on his return back from the West, to give us more light, and to administer the ordinance of baptism. We are still striving to overcome all our besetments, and to run with patience the race set before us. It gives us great pleasure to know that the truth is proclaimed here, and we hope erelong to be partakers of its fruits. We are thankful to God for all the blessings of his word, in bringing us from darkness to light, to serve him, the only wise and true God. We are determined to try and serve him more than ever, by keeping ourselves free from the enemy, and to lay up our treasures in heaven. We see more and more our folly in laying up our treasures on earth, to vanish away. By the help of God we mean to devote more time and means to his cause in spreading the truth in Minnesota. We should like to know what is designed to be done here next summer for the spread of the truth. We hope that a good work may be accomplished.

Some of our neighbors would like to know more about the way of life than we can tell them. They read the Review and like it very well.

If any Bro. will come this way, my house is open for them. We live fifteen miles from Winona, and two miles from the New Boston Post Office, Winona Co.

We want the word of life to have free course among us. Pray that we may be found worthy to have right to the tree of life, and enter in through the gates into the city.

Yours seeking life through Christ. PETER AND CATHARINE ERB. New Boston, Min., Dec., 1859.