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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 10, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 20, No. 2.

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LETTERS.

By A. S. Hutchins

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

From Bro. Hutchins.

Bro. White: The prosperity of the cause of the Lord still rejoices my heart greatly. I am grateful to the Father of mercies that I am a companion of them that fear him, and that keep his precepts. I fain would suffer with the people of God here, that I may share with them in the reward of an endless life so soon to be given. Who would desire to reign with the blessed Saviour in his kingdom without first suffering with him? “If we suffer, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us.”
Ten years have passed away since I left the Free Will Baptist church, and connected myself with commandment-keepers. Within this period I have not regretted the step one moment. I am truly thankful to the Lord for the light that then shone upon my mind, and that it has shone more and more. I think there are very encouraging indications that the third message will soon go in power.
On the subject of spiritual gifts there is an increasing interest, attended by a corresponding growth in grace. This subject, as well as that of organization, unity of the church, &c., my mind dwells upon with great satisfaction. O that the church of God may awake, arise, and gird on the whole armor, that we may be able to stand, and having done all to stand.
May the gracious hand of the Lord continue to sustain you and your faithful companion in your arduous labors till
“Hope shall change to glad fruition, Faith to sight, and prayer to praise.”
In love and hope. A. S. Hutchins.
May, 29, 1862.