Bro. M. W. Stockwell writes from Yates Center, N. Y.: “There is a great work before us, and the time is short in which it is to be performed; therefore we must be up and doing. We should not live to please ourselves, nor others, but God. We must lay aside all worldly pleasures and vanities, deny ourselves, take up the cross, and follow our Saviour, if we expect ever to wear the crown. If we are willing to do all our duty, the Lord will help and strengthen us. So let us strive daily to fear him and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Let us so live that when the last trump shall sound, the Son of man can say, 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.' This will doubly repay us for all our trials here; our hearts will then be filled unutterably full with the love of God, and we shall be prepared to sing the new song of Moses and the Lamb.”