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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 15, No. 10.

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P. F. FERCIOT

By P. F. Ferciot

From Bro. Ferciot.

DEAR brethren and sisters: I can say it has been a groat help to me to read the many admonitions of those that are striving to overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. I am very thankful to God that he has permitted me to see the light of present truth, though well aware that those that live it out will have many things to contend with. They will have to lay all on the altar, have their affections weaned from the things of this life and placed upon things eternal. It is by patient continuance in well-doing that we are to seek for glory, honor and immortality; the doers of the word and not the hearers only will be justified before God. It will not do us any good to make a mere profession of religion while our hearts are not right in the sight of God. It is for us to know for ourselves and not for another, whether we have the love of God in our hearts. I am fully persuaded that I have lived at too great a distance from the Lord. I have enjoyed many blessed privileges with his people, have felt his Spirit in my heart, and been made to rejoice with those that rejoiced in him; yet there appears to be a coldness in our midst; there is not that zeal, and that love one for another, that our Saviour speaks of, nor that entire consecration that should characterize us as the followers of the meek and lowly Saviour. My prayer to God is that he may enable us to examine ourselves by the light of his word, and see whether we are truly in the faith. It is our privilege and duty to be perfect Christians. The apostle James says: "If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body." I want so to live that I shall give no offense to any one, not to please myself, but God, and glorify him in my body and spirit which are his. I am satisfied that of those who live in this way, many will be constrained to say, They have been in the school of Christ; and our friends as well as some who are enemies to the truth, may be led to accept the last offers of mercy before it is too late.
Many have left the church in this place and now are enemies to the truth. I would request the prayers of God's children in behalf of those that remain that we may come up to our high privilege as a church, be zealous of good works, and have all the Christian graces developed in our lives and conversation.
In hope of eternal life.

P. F. FERCIOT

Lovett's Grove, O.