Extracts from Letters

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 2, 1862

Extracts from Letters.

Sister C. Aldrich writes from Washington, Sauk Co., Wis.: I have often felt as though I would like to speak through the Review, if perchance it might encourage some lonely traveler, that is bound for mount Zion, the city of our God. I often rejoice while reading letters from dear brethren and sisters scattered abroad, and feel like casting in my testimony in favor of the truth which is now going forth to the world. We are truly living in a time of great tribulation, but Christ says, In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. And again we read, "For which cause we faint not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day; for our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal." Eternal life beyond this vale of tears is promised us, if faithful. Encouraging thought! animating hope! Is it not enough to stimulate us to action? I want to be cleansed from every stain of sin, that I may be found when Jesus comes without spot or wrinkle.

I rejoice this morning for the hope I have of overcoming. Glorious theme! Glorious thought! that soon, if faithful to the end, we shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the holy throng that are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, and Christ himself will come forth and serve us. I feel to cry out, unworthy am I, O Lord! I am nothing but weakness, but in Jehovah there is strength.

Bro. C. Seward writes from Russiaville, Ind.: I would just say that the little flock of Sabbath-keepers in and around Russiaville, are still trying to hold on to the precious faith in these times of peril. We very much desire some one of the messengers to visit us this fall, and teach us more fully the way of salvation. We would be very glad if Bro. and Sr. White would visit us in Indiana.

Bro. P. Martin writes from Dane, Dane Co., Wis.: We are living in trying, sifting times, and I feel to praise the Lord for the light that shines upon his word through his servants and in the Review. We are a little company trying to overcome. It is almost two years since I embraced the Sabbath, which I consider to be truth unmixed. I heard Bro. Miller deliver two of his first sixteen lectures. From that time to the present I have been a believer in the soon coming of our blessed Lord. The signs and evidences in '43 and '44 were plain; but it seems as though they were nothing but a cipher compared with the evidence since that time. The Saviour taught us to know by signs, most of which are already fulfilled, that he is near, even at the door.