Letters by Wm. W. Miller

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 17, 1859

Letters.

By Wm. W. Miller

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

From Bro. Miller.

Bro. Smith: We feel as though we could sympathize with the afflicted, ourselves being afflicted. Death for the fourth time has entered our little circle, and we have been caused to mourn, but not without hope. We feel truly thankful for the consolation there is in the hope of the Christian. Death may triumph for a while, but our children will come again to their own border. Jer. xxxi, 17. We know what it is to feel the utter desolation of that heart that is afflicted, and is without hope and without God in the world. The first child we lost was before we embraced present truth. We could not then feel that it was right, or just, but when the heart became subdued by grace, we could say, Our heavenly Father doeth all things well. As one tie after another is severed that binds to this dark world, we are reminded that it is not our home. O we want to get where we can endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ, and overcome, and meet those sleeping ones. As the poet has said,

“The thoughts of such amazing bliss Should constant joys impart.”

Yes, we may be comforted by the thought of spending a never-ending eternity with the loved and the lost where death cannot enter, where there is no fear of being separated. In the new earth the inhabitants will not say I am sick. The fond parent will not bend with restless anxiety over the couch of the sick one, watching its failing strength and fluttering pulse. We shall not weep any more over the sufferings and death of the loved. Death will be swallowed up in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away all tears from off all

faces. Isa. xxv. 8. All cause of weeping will be removed. The tree of life will be there with its leaves for the healing of the nations: and its fruit to give immortal vigor to its inhabitants.

Yours in hope, WM. W. MILLER. Norfolk, N. Y.

P. S. I would say to those formerly acquainted in Norfolk, that Spiritualism is rapidly increasing here. A trance medium has lately moved into the place. Spirits have lectured through her three times. I was told that the town hall was full to-day (Sunday), to hear her. Spirits have raised up two bed-ridden women, though one of them has gone back again. They tried to work a miracle on a boy five or six years old, who never had walked. The doctor, as he is called, set him on his feet, and while the child was under his influence he would walk; but he has relapsed into his former decrepitude. W. W. M.

Note.—Satan may have great power; but it is limited. The magicians of Egypt could go a certain way with Moses in working miracles. But they came to a point beyond which they could not go. God went on with his wonders, and the magicians had to acknowledge his power. Their folly was manifest. Now we have the divine assurance that as their folly was manifest, so shall it be with those who resist the truth in these last days. Their power will fail before the mighty works which God by his Spirit will perform. Would that his people were in a place where he could safely and consistently work through them now.—Ed.