Mission to Canadian Churches by Michael Belina Czechowski

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 29, 1860

Mission to Canadian Churches

By Michael Belina Czechowski

FROM BRO. CZECHOWSKI.

SINCE I returned from Vt., I have visited several districts in this vicinity, in Chazy, Mooers, and Champlain, and closed my mission by a general conference in Chazy, last Sabbath and first-day. I feel that I have discharged my duty to the Canadian people in this region. My conscience is clear, and I believe the church is free. My prayer is that the good seed which has been sown may bring forth some fruit unto eternal life. I am much obliged to you for forwarding to me the letter from my sister in Poland. That letter informed me of the death of my parents. My father died seven years ago, my mother three years. How these two trees have fallen, is known only to God. How great is the responsibility of the people here, who hear the voice of God, and will not obey the gospel, or appreciate the present truth! I fear the position of this people, who are now rejecting the light of present truth, will be far worse than that of Sodom and Gomorrah, in that day when all shall be rewarded according to their works, because they reject so much greater light. But I fear more for those Sabbath-keepers who have only a form of godliness, but are destitute of the power thereof. For the half-hearted Sabbath-keeper I cherish hope; but what shall I say of those who have known the way and renounced it? "For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

Your brother rejoicing in hope of eternal life. M. B. CZECHOWSKI.