Extracts from Letters

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 12, 1862

Extracts from Letters.

Bro. J. Heath writes from South Hardwick, Vt.: "I still feel interested in reading the Review and Instructor. I have an interest in the cause they advocate, and am trying to live out the great truths they hold up before the world. The third angel's message, for a little more than two years, has been a sweet and heavenly message to me. Although I had been a professor of religion for more than forty years, and a Methodist class-leader for a number of years, and besides had been in the first and second messages, when this truth found a place in my heart, O, what a change! It lifted me up and showed me that there was yet a work to be done for me. Every belief not according to the word of God must be given up. O, how strait the way! how narrow! Every idol must be cast away. The testimony to the church must be fully received. I hope that I shall come up fully to the work, and be ready for the coming of Christ."

Bro. O. Davis writes from North Berwick, Me.: "I am glad to see the subject of State Conferences being agitated. It appears to me that a judicious arrangement in Conferences of the Lord's people so that a general meeting in a State as often as once a year, at least, would result in a great blessing to the cause. As things are this way now, nothing definite is looked forward to, and if I am rightly informed, in many places meetings are dropped almost entirely. Troubles are likely to soon press upon us in respect to military matters, and we shall all need the strengthening influence of meeting together and building up one another's faith. I have often felt the need of opportunities of consulting with brethren of experience in my trials and difficulties."

Sister J. Stacy writes from Cass, Ohio: "I hope we shall all awake to our eternal interest. I feel more than ever determined to live out the present truth. When I look forward to the glorious inheritance that lies at the end of the race, it inspires me with new courage to move onward. Think, brethren, what Jesus said when he left his disciples. 'I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am there ye may be also.' Blessed thought! that while the wicked are calling for rocks to fall on them, we have a place prepared for us."