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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 14, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 17, No. 26.

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I. G. CAMP

By I. G. Camp

From Sister Camp.

Bro. SMITH: I am very thankful for the privilege of hearing from the saints through the Review, for I love them, especially those who have borne the burden and heat of the day. My heart has been pained while I have heard some of my dear brethren and sisters complaining of their moves and trembling for their fate and that of the cause of God. I felt that we had greater reason by far to tremble for our own fate and for the cause on our own account. There are some who have gone out from us, and have given up one point of truth after another until they are probably gone forever. And perhaps about the first wrong discoverable in them was a disposition to find fault with those whom the Lord was especially using to advance his cause. And I think this course is inconsistent with that lesson of brotherly love taught us by the great Head of the church who laid down his life for us, and taught us that we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. I think that in view of all that Bro. and Sr. White have done and suffered for the cause and people of God, instead of increasing their burdens we should be willing to lay down our lives for them. I verily believe that the time is not far distant when the true people of God will come up in one solid phalanx, and how many, O how many will have to be sifted out because they have not been willing to humble themselves and confess all their faults, and seek earnestly for righteousness and meekness that they might be hid in the day of the Lord's fierce anger. Solemn thought!
My dear brethren and sisters, may we each for ourselves strive for that love that worketh no ill to his neighbor, and which will be to us the fulfilling of God's holy law, so that we may have an abundant entrance administered unto us into the everlasting kingdom. May the Lord strengthen the hands and encourage the hearts and guide the steps of his dear people. I feel to thank the Lord that he ever led sister White to write her views and experience that we may see how he has led and sustained her and her companion in this work. Truly may it be said, "Thus far the Lord hath led us on," and he will lead and guide us still.
Your sister endeavoring to strive lawfully for a possession in the new earth.

I. G. CAMP

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