Extracts from Letters

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 19, 1862

Extracts from Letters.

Bro. H. F. Baker writes from Wauseon, Ohio: “My long silence has not been owing to want of interest in this blessed cause. No; for though zealous and in earnest when I started for Zion, I feel no less so to-day. And when I contemplate the progress of signs in the political world, corroborating the truth of the position we occupy, which have been transpiring for the last three years, my faith is strengthened, my confidence in the message established, and I feel to-day more determined than ever before by the grace of God to do my whole duty, that I may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. The commencement of troublous times is undoubtedly upon us. I have been anxiously looking for something to appear which should indicate for us a line of duty, and I believed it would as soon as it was needed. I am satisfied to trust in the Lord and do good, assured as I am that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. I therefore entertain no fears, but rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.”

Bro. C. Leiter writes from Mohontongo, Pa.: I feel to thank God that I ever was so blest as to obtain the Review and Herald. It was through a messenger of the Baptists that it was brought into the neighborhood where I lived, in 1857; and since that time it has been a welcome visitor to myself and family.

At the above-mentioned time my wife and myself examined the Sabbath question, and found that no other than the seventh day could be the Sabbath of the Lord, and we resolved to keep it. From that time to this we have tried to keep it holy. Myself and wife, my uncle and his family, and another brother, have met for worship and had joyful seasons together. In about a year after, there was another one from the Lutheran church joined with us to keep the Sabbath, and so our meetings continued till another family, a man and his wife, united with us. We are somewhat scattered, living fourteen, thirteen, and twenty miles apart, so the Review is my weekly preacher. Bless the name of the Lord for the paper! My prayer is still that the Lord may send some one of his messengers to Juniata Co., Pa., so that we may hear the last message proclaimed in this section.

Sister S. Sigman writes from Manhattan, Kansas: “It is with pleasure I take my pen to acknowledge the privilege I have had of reading a few numbers of the Advent Review. It has put a new belief into my mind. I have always been taught to keep the first day, and knew nothing about any denomination that kept the seventh day, only as I had heard of the Seventh-day Baptists. But I was taught to shun them almost as I would a deist. But thank God, I believe I have been taught better by reading the Review and Sabbath Herald, and the books Mortal or Immortal, and the Third Angel's Message. These are all I have been able to procure, and they have given me such a desire for more reading of the same kind, that I concluded to write and see if you would send me the Review. I will send the pay for it as soon as I can. There is not one here who is a member of the Seventh-day Adventists, that I can find, so I can not procure any more of your works. I was a Methodist until one year ago, when I became convinced that that was not the right way. My husband was also a Methodist until last May, when he fortunately fell in company with some Seventh-day people, and now is a strong believer in the Sabbath.”