The Need of Entire Consecration
Bro. L. S. Wetherwax writes from Olcott, N. Y.: "Having a leisure hour I desire to write a few words to the dear brethren and sisters scattered abroad who are obedient to the third angel's message, keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. It has been between three and four years since through the abounding mercy of our heavenly Father I was brought to see the light of the present truth. Bro. and sister Lindsay furnished me with books and papers, which clearly showed the seventh day to be the Sabbath by incontrovertible testimony, also that the dead sleep, and that destruction was the portion of the wicked. "Dear brethren and sisters, I never felt the need of being holy, or of entire consecration to God more than now. I feel that God requires all my heart, all my affections, so that I have no will of my own but what is swallowed up in God's, without which I know that if weighed in the balance I shall be found wanting when Jesus comes. I cannot bear the thought. I must go through with the remnant, and I know that I must be holy in order to be admitted there; and still I feel such a stupid lukewarmness that I painfully fear sometimes I shall not be ready when Jesus comes. Brethren and sisters pray that God may help me through."