Extracts from Letters

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 18, 1862

Extracts from Letters.

Sister M. C. Trembly writes from Sanford, Mich.: "I am still striving to live out the precious truths of the Bible. I feel a strong determination to get on the whole armor, that I may be prepared for what is coming. I believe we are living in a solemn and awful time. We must be guarded on every side, watch and pray much, that we enter not into temptation. I feel much pleased with the idea of order among God's people. I would like to have my name enrolled among them here, and hereafter."

Bro. C. A. Ingalls writes from Berlin, Wis.: "We are very lonely here, but we keep struggling on. How we want to hear the word preached again. It rejoices us to hear of the prosperity of the cause. It seems as if the hand of the Lord was leading his church upon higher and holier ground. O, may we all be prepared for the mighty work before us. It is very cheering to us lonely ones to read the letters from the brethren and sisters. My whole heart is in the cause. O Lord, prepare thy people for the trials that are fast thickening upon the earth. I desire your prayers that I may be found with that happy people who will say, 'Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him; we will rejoice in his salvation, and he will save us.'"

Bro. B. P. Warner writes from Woodhull, Mich.: "I would say a few words with regard to our spiritual welfare. There are some eight or nine of us here who are trying to keep the Sabbath of the Lord. We never have heard a lecture on present truth. All the preaching we have is the Bible and Review, with some few of your books, which we prize very highly. We feel the need of a teacher very much, and hope to be able to bear the expenses of one this spring if we are favored. We desire an interest in the prayers of God's dear children that we may ever be found living up to all the light that we have."

Bro. L. Bean writes from Troy, Vt.: "I can say that there is nothing which gives me more delight than the prosperity of the cause of Christ here on earth, and the advancement of the third angel's message. I want to go through with the remnant and enter that kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world for the little flock."

Sister E. A. Sevey writes: "I still feel a determination to make heaven my home. I am more and more determined every day I live. We see the perilous times hastening on, and I think it should stir us up to more earnestness in the good cause in which we are engaged. I feel to thank God that he has given me eyes to see, and a heart to prize, the present truth. If we firmly obey it, we shall overcome every fault, and have a home in that blest mansion that Christ has gone to prepare for us. O, happy thought! that we can be where trouble and sighing will be no more. I long for that time to come. And though the doubt sometimes arises that I never shall be there, I am determined to try, the Lord being my helper. I realize that I can do nothing of myself."