L E T T E R S by Jesse Dorcas

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 15, 1862

L E T T E R S .

By Jesse Dorcas

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

From Bro. Dorcas.

DEAR BRO. WHITE: Permit me to say to the saints scattered abroad that I still love the truths brought to view, advocated, and enforced by the third message. I never saw the necessity for straight work more clearly than a short time ago at Fairview, where Brn. Snook and Shortridge organized a church, where all were plainly taught their duty in respect to all the truth, where none were pressed into the communion, but all who voluntarily united in church relation were faithfully apprised as to what would be expected of them. My hope for the cause in this State begins to rise. May the Lord bless the labors of the brethren above named, and send forth other laborers into the harvest.

I have no trouble as to this being the work of God, nor as to who are his ministers, any more than had I been living in the days of Moses and Joshua, or Paul, Peter, and John. My only fear is lest a promise being left me of entering into his rest I should come short of it through neglect of the faith which sweetly works by love and purifies the heart.

I rejoice that the Lord has set watchmen upon the walls of Jerusalem that will not hold their peace till her righteousness shall go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth. To organize this 144000 company is surely not a small matter, and will not be accomplished without a certain knowledge and faithful record of it, both in heaven and earth. May the Lord speed the work.

Yours truly.

JESSE DORCAS.

Tipton, Iowa.