p. 47 | Extracts from Letters

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 25, 1860

Extracts from Letters.

Bro. J. D. Hough writes from Rochester, Mich., Dec. 20th, 1860: "I feel as if I wanted to start anew, for I find that living to the halves will not profit us. To be almost a Christian, and to do almost to our neighbor as we would have our neighbor do to us, and to be almost consecrated to the Lord, and to lay almost all on the altar, and to be almost ready to meet our Saviour, will only amount to being almost saved, which will be to be finally lost. Now dear brethren and sisters, in view of the perils of the day and the thickening signs, does it not behoove us as rational beings, to arise and set our faces as a flint Zionward. Soon we must give an account of our stewardship, and if we have wasted our Lord's money or goods, we must reap the reward. We all have witnessed the mighty struggle of the political world, and we cannot but see that the nations are getting angry, and we as a people must make a mighty struggle to get in a position to face the powers of the enemy. Pray for unworthy me, that the Spirit of the Lord may abundantly rest upon me, and that I may have wisdom to do the will of my heavenly Master at all times."