Extracts from Letters

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 3, 1860

Extracts from Letters.

Mrs. M. Ashbaugh writes from Dundee, Ills : "Four years ago, just after the death of my last daughter, a lovely girl of eighteen, I began to read the Review, and it has been my greatest comforter ever since. I have been keeping the Sabbath for three years all alone. I find some inconvenience, but have great reason to be thankful that I meet no persecution. I have met with a woman and her two daughters who heard Bro. Miller preach, and were interested in the cause, but had forgotten all about it. They never heard of the Sabbath movement until reading my papers. They have commenced keeping the Sabbath. Besides them, I never saw but one Adventist. I am happy to hear of the progress of truth in Iowa, but pained at heart that we here in Illinois are seemingly left out of sight. I had fondly hoped that some of the brethren going west would give us a call. I hope some who travel on the Chicago and Galena road will think of it and see if they have not got a message for us here on Fox River. If they will drop a line to me a few days beforehand at Dundee, they shall be met there, or at Gilbert's or Huntley's station, and brought to our place, and used as well as we are able to do, and carried back to the road when they wish. My heart's desire and prayer is for the prosperity of Zion, and that I may live to see the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."