COMING UP by Isaac Sanborn

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 19, 1861

COMING UP.

By Isaac Sanborn

DEAR BRO. WHITE: I visited the church at Little Prairie, Nov. 2 and 3, and found them coming up to the help of the Lord. I presented the necessity of a more thorough system of order in the church, and then presented the covenant recommended in the Review, Vol. xviii, No. 20. Twenty-five brethren and sisters presented themselves, having entirely abandoned the use of tea, coffee, tobacco, and snuff, and the wearing of jewelry, artificials, and hoops, and voluntarily signed their names to the aforesaid covenant. There were four or five who could not, or did not, give up their idols; in consequence of which they stood back. But we hope they will yet see their folly and turn to the Lord our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Dear brethren and sisters, it is evident to me that by this more perfect system of order God is cutting his work short in righteousness. Praise his holy name! the time has come when we can discern between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. This church also pledged thirty dollars to run the tent next season, and we hope soon to be able to report that all the other churches in Wis. and Ills. have done likewise.

Isaac Sanborn. Whitewater, Wal. Co., Wis.