LETTERS | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 4, 1862

LETTERS.

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

From Bro. Loudon.

DEAR BRO. WHITE: I have not been silent because I have no love for the present truth, but from a feeling of incompetence: yet I think it is my privilege and duty to let my light shine, and own my Lord and Saviour before men, that he may own me before my heavenly Father.

The signs of the times show that we are nigh the closing of all probation in this present world. I believe the Lord is giving us his last message, and may I be prepared to meet the Lord in peace. There are but four of us here that believe in the seventh day Sabbath and Advent doctrine, but we believe the Review publishes the truth as it is in the Scriptures, and we hail its weekly visits with delight. We all believe that the gifts will be in the true church, and what has been given to us already are in agreement with the Scriptures.

I hope that some of our preachers will come to this place and give a course of lectures. I think some good might be done, and hope that all who pass this way will call and stop awhile with us, as we would like a visit from any of the brethren. I have ever been in favor of temperance, and as for tobacco, I broke off the habit of using this filthy weed some eight years ago, about the time I embraced the Sabbath, and now I think tea and coffee will share the same fate.

I am trying to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, that when the Lord shall make up his Jewels, I may have some humble part with them in the new earth, a part in the first resurrection, over which the second death shall have no power. Brethren pray for me, that I may with you obtain that blessed inheritance that is incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away, eternal in the heavens.

Your unworthy brother hoping and trying to live for the kingdom. JAMES LOUDON. Janesville, Wis.