HIRAM DECKER by Hiram Decker

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 5, 1863

HIRAM DECKER

By Hiram Decker

From Bro. Decker.

BRO. WHITE: Since I last wrote for the Review nearly three years have gone by, never more to return; and our confirmation has since then grown strong in the truthfulness of the third angel's message. Various have been the changes since that time, not only in the moral, but also in the natural, world, and various have been the trials and anxieties of our minds, through which we have passed. Since then a dear and beloved wife has gone down to the tomb, and the home she once made cheerful and happy is now sad and desolate, and the help I then had to keep the Sabbath holy, is now gone, and I am comparatively alone; though not alone while God is my help.

For the last year sickness almost constantly has prevailed among the little band of Sabbath-keepers in this place. And though our earthly hopes have been obscured, yet we trust our hopes of heaven and a better inheritance grow stronger. We are striving earnestly for "the faith once delivered to the saints," not only in word, but in deed, hoping thereby to put gainsayers to silence. A fearful stupor and insensibility seems to have come over the popular religionists of the day, and the vast multitude who follow in their wake are starving for the bread of life. O God, save thy remnant people from pride and dead formality.

We are looking forward with considerable anxiety to our State Conference, and would sanction the brethren's request at Roosevelt that the Conference be held there. We hope also to see Bro. and sister White in attendance. Brethren and sisters, pray for us.

HIRAM DECKER

West Monroe, N. Y.