p. 198 | L E T T E R S by C. H. T. St. Clair

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 7, 1861

L E T T E R S.

By C. H. T. St. Clair

"Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another."

From Bro. St. Clair.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: Your testimonies in the Review from week to week encourage me to press on toward the kingdom of God. Therefore I feel it my duty to add my testimony in this good cause. I and my companion engaged in the service of Christ nearly one year ago. We have not yet grown tired of keeping the commandments of God nor weary in well doing. I enlisted under the banner of the cross to fight the battles of the Lord, and I can adopt the language of the poet,

"Sure I must fight if I would reign, Increase my courage, Lord; I'll bear the toil, endure the pain, Supported by thy word."

Let us be valiant soldiers, and gird on the whole armor of the Lord. I thank God that I have been permitted to live in these last days to hear the sound of the third angel's message, and to heed his warning.

When Brn. Hull and Snook pitched the tent in Fairfield last spring, the people were much prejudiced against them. The cry was raised that they were Mormons, and that they were leading the people astray. My curiosity was somewhat excited, and I was anxious to go and hear them. I did so, and I bless God that he ever put it into their hearts to come to Fairfield to preach the word of the Lord. May the Lord richly reward them for their labors among this people. My prayer is that the blessings of God may follow them in this good work. I want to be a faithful servant that I may have a right to the tree of life and enter in through the gates into the city. I want to be a humble follower of the meek and lowly Jesus, that when he comes to call his ransomed people home I may be among that number, and stand on mount Zion and sing the song that no man can learn but the hundred and forty and four thousand which will be redeemed from the earth.

I am but a pilgrim and stranger here in this world of sin, passing on to a better land than this, where there will be no more sorrow, sickness, pain or death.

Dear brethren and sisters, it is there we will meet to part no more. Let us be faithful yet a little while. Jesus will soon come to call us home to his Father's house where he has prepared many mansions for his dear people. Let us try to realize where we are, and the time in which we live. Being in the day of atonement, let us confess all our sins while there is a moderator. Soon it will be too late. None but the pure in heart can inherit eternal life. After the decree goes forth, it is finished; he that is filthy will be filthy still, and he that is holy will be holy still.

Yours in hope of eternal life.

C. H. T. ST. CLAIR.

Fairfield, Iowa.