Extracts from Letters

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 3, 1863

Extracts from Letters.

Sister S. W. Austin writes from Kinsman, O. : Under a deep sense of gratitude I seat myself to acknowledge the receipt of a few Nos. of the Review and Herald, through the benevolence of a friend. Language is not adequate to express the gratitude I feel, once more to have the privilege of searching the evidences of our Christian hope. It carries me back to 1843, when I listened to father Miller, as he presented proofs from the Scriptures that our redemption was nigh, which caused my heart to thrill with joy in anticipation of soon meeting the redeemed where sorrow and sighing would be no more.

I left Vt. in Oct. of that year, and located in Erie Co., Pa., where the millennial doctrine has been treated with contempt, and the little son, then four years old, that used to talk of Christ's coming to take him to heaven, now a man of a family, is drawn off by the call of his country to meet those of his own nation in mortal conflict. Oh, how can I express the deep sorrow that fills my heart at such a calamity! Nothing but the grace of God can console me under such deep affliction. I hope to be enabled to endure hardness as a good soldier, that I may wear the crown.