LETTER FROM BRO. ANDREWS.
By John Nevins Andrews
DEAR BRO. SMITH: I learn from home that my father has been very sick, and that he is still very feeble. As my brother's health is not such that it can be depended upon, I greatly fear that I shall be obliged to remain hereafter at home, or in its immediate vicinity. It is my sincere desire to do all that I can in the cause of God. I have made the best arrangements that I knew how to make, in order to be absent from the time I left in January till the coming fall. But I must be governed by the providence of God, however it may conflict with my purposes. It has been my earnest desire that the tent in N. Y. should go out the coming season, and that it should prove a special blessing to the cause in that State. Yet from personal observation I am constrained to say that the prospect of success is not so cheering in that State as could be wished. Quite a number of those who are best able to aid in the enterprise seem to feel no interest in it. I hope that those who do feel an interest in this effort will manifest it in season to prevent its failure. I say not this from any selfish motive, as it looks to me very uncertain whether I can labor in connection with it or not. As to the REVIEW Office it seems to me that we can hit upon a plan that will answer the desired purpose, and yet not be open to any reasonable objection. Probably the laws of Michigan are similar to those of this State. Here a number of persons, with the aid of a justice of the peace, can be empowered to hold property in trust for any specified purpose. Something of this kind can be done in Michigan, no doubt, and I cannot see that it would be an act of apostasy, or that it would be "making to ourselves a name." Brethren, pray that God may guide in this matter. Without doubt he will hear prayer if we desire with all our hearts that he should guide us. Worcester, Mass., April 6th, 1860.