LETTERS by Jonathan Chase

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 11, 1862

LETTERS.

By Jonathan Chase

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

From Bro. Chase.

DEAR BRO. WHITE : I have just returned from meeting with the church in monthly conference at Hundred Mile Grove. The Seventh-day Adventist church met at Hundred Mile Grove, at Bro. Rankins', for the purpose of attending to the ordinances. A goodly num-ber of the brethren and sisters were assembled, but not all of them. During the first part, or the prayer-meeting, a cloud of darkness seemed to rest down upon us until about the close, when, by the confession of faults by one brother, the burden seemed to roll off from the minds of the brethren and sisters, and we had a heavenly time, while partaking of the emblems of the broken body and spilled blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Previous to partaking of the ordinances there were three more added to the church, we hope of such as shall be saved. We believe that God will have a pure church.

It is said in Scripture, He will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into his garner. I believe the purging process is in some degree now going on. We must be honest, upright in all our transactions, live devoted, and with an eye single to the glory of God. Pray for us, that we, as a church, may keep the word of his (Christ's) patience, that we may be delivered from the hour of temptation, and finally have an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Your unworthy brother striving to overcome. JONATHAN CHASE.

North Leeds, Wis.