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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 13, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 18, No. 11.

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LETTERS.

“Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another.”
From Bro. Crous.
BRO. WHITE: I wish to say to the readers of the Review that I am striving to keep all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, hoping with you to be an overcomer when our Saviour shall appear in the clouds of heaven to call forth his sleeping saints, and to redeem those who are ready and waiting for his return. It cheers us much to read the testimonies of our brethren and sisters of like faith. All the preaching we have is the paper. It is truly a welcome visitor. My companion and myself are all the Seventh-day Adventists there are in this place. We have to bear a great share of persecution, but the Lord has promised to be with us in six troubles, and in the seventh not to forsake us. The professors of religion here say our example tends to demoralize. They say we ought to go with the majority of christians, so there would be union in the churches. One minister said it was sophism to say that christians do not go to heaven when they die, and sinners to torment. To prove his position he quoted 1 Thess. iii, 13, and Jude 14, then asked the question, If the saints do not go to heaven when they die how can they come with Christ? He quoted Rev. xx, 13 to prove the wicked go to hell at death, then asked the same question. We think the facts contained in 1 Thess. iii, 13, if carefully examined, would destroy his position, from the fact that when Jesus comes on the white cloud, there will be some living saints on the earth which could not come with him. Will some of the messengers of truth please notice the above texts in the Review for our instruction.
Yours striving to overcome, so when the Life-giver comes we may be ready. WM. F. CROUS. Appleton, Ohio.
NOTE.—The word rendered saints in the texts referred to means simply the holy ones, and we think refers to the angels. A similar expression occurs in Deut. xxxiii, 2, where it must refer to the angels.