Extracts from Letters

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 7, 1862

Extracts from Letters.

Bro. W. Coon writes from Wakeman, Ohio: I desire the first opportunity to have some one or two of the messengers go to East Rockford, Ohio, to hold a series of meetings. It is a good opening. There is a meeting-house which can be occupied, and a family where they can find a home as long as they will stay. If they will call on me at Wakeman, I will go with them any time. I feel that it is important that all good openings for the truth to be preached should be filled; for we are living in a solemn time, and the glorious truths of the Bible should be proclaimed wherever there is opportunity.

Sister M. E. Parker writes from Green Spring Ohio: I am still striving to overcome. Having no strength of my own, I am trying to walk in the strength of the Lord. It is eight years since I first kept the Lord's Sabbath. I thank the Lord for the plainness of his holy word, and for mercy in showing me his truth. The Lord has promised to be a refuge to them that put their trust in him. I know if we do the will of the Father, and have the testimony of Jesus, it will be well with us. Let us press forward.

Sister S. Burdick writes from Greenfield, N. H.: “I do not feel discouraged in the least, nor like going back. There is nothing to go back to. We had a good meeting yesterday at Bro. S. Martin's. The good Spirit of the Lord was in our midst. The little church in this vicinity are trying to serve the Lord and make their way through to the kingdom. We know that we are living in a solemn time; and our prayer is, Lord, teach us thyself.”

Bro. E. P. Wilkins writes from Wilson's Grove, Iowa: “O what a blessed thing it is to have a well-grounded hope, especially in these days of peril, when the nations are becoming angry, and the political world is being shaken from center to circumference. O how solemn the time in which we live! How exactly the prophecy is being fulfilled—men's hearts failing them for fear. For the encouragement of the saints I would say that a few have lately embraced the truth in this place, and meet on the Sabbath for worship. We meet at West Union and Claremont. We should be very thankful if we could have a course of lectures.”