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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 8, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 18, No. 19.

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LETTERS.

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

From Sister Mackey.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I have for a long time felt it duty to write to you through the Review, but I have excused myself because my talent is so small. But will God excuse the one that has but one talent sooner than the one that has ten? I think not. When the Lord comes he will claim his own with usury. I desire to seek diligently to know all his holy will concerning me. I thank the Lord for the light of present truth. It is some over a year since we commenced to keep the Sabbath, and I am not tired. No; praise the great and holy name of Jesus, that he ever sent his messengers to Marquette to proclaim the third angel's message. The way grows brighter, and O I anxiously wait for my Lord when he returns from the wedding.
We have meetings three times a week. Last Sabbath the ordinances of the Lord's house were attended, and we had a sweet melting time. I think the church generally are coming up on higher ground.
I do believe that we are living in the perils of the last days, when evil men and seducers are waxing worse and worse; and unless we have on the breastplate of righteousness, we are an easy prey to the enemy.
My earnest desire and prayer to God is, that I may be constantly on the watch tower, and overcome the world with all its delusions, and meet you all where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest. A. C. MACKEY. Marquette, Wis.
Sister M. F. Carpenter writes from Waterville: "In our present lukewarmness, I am sometimes reminded of meetings of the Christian church, years in the past: the same complaining, 'I do not enjoy my mind as formerly,' 'I am not what I should be,' &c. Now when these complaints become habitual, do we comfort each other by meeting together? Does it not rather discourage those who are easily discouraged, and burden those who are not? Ought we not rather to go to our closets where the declension first began, and cry mightily to God to restore unto us the joys of his salvation, pleading his promise, which says, 'Ye shall find me when ye shall seek me with all your hearts?' Then we could go to the house of God and say, 'Draw near, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what great things he has done for my soul.' Then we could comfort each other with the prospect of the soon coming Saviour. But if we are lukewarm we shut our own prayers out of heaven. God has told us if we regard iniquity in our hearts he will not hear us pray. Then we can be no benefit to our children, or to any one; for without Christ we can do nothing. Our enemies are looking on and saying, 'So would we have it.' 'This is the day we looked for.' Surely it is not the will of God that we should be given over a prey to our enemies, and a reproach to them that are round about us. If we allow ourselves to be lukewarm we grieve that tender-hearted Saviour who says, 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice, and will open the door, I will come in and sup with him and he with me.' O, shall we any longer allow our sins to bar the dear Saviour from our hearts? Let us arise and take hold on strength. God has said, Let them take hold on my strength."