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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 10, 1863

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 21, No. 11.

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A. A. FAIRFIELD

By A. A. Fairfield

From Bro. Fairfield.

BRO. WHITE: Permit me through the Review to speak to the many dear brethren and sisters with whom I have been made acquainted by reading their letters. They contain such a flow of feeling and stirring exhortations that I am often made to thank God and take courage, and would esteem it a great privilege were I permitted to meet with them and mingle our voices together in prayer and praise to our Father in heaven—prayer for his guidance and protection while we are to battle with the many foes without and within—praise to God for his goodness to poor fallen man. O, that I could but realize the vastness of those sweet sentences of scripture, “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life;” and, “He that believeth on him is not condemned.” O, that I could believe and so live by faith that I might escape condemnation; but my faith is so weak, and my heart so treacherous, that I can but say, “Lord, help thou mine unbelief,” “God be merciful to me a sinner,” and save me through the merits of Christ.
It is now over two years since I with my companion commenced keeping the Lord's holy Sabbath, which, through the labors of Bro. Hull at Mt. Pleasant, and the reading of books on the subject, we were led to see was the only Sabbath ever required by the Lord for man to keep. We have found many things to oppose and hinder us in keeping it as we think the Lord requires, but always feel that we are doing our duty in keeping it the best that circumstances will permit. We long to be placed in a community of Sabbath keepers, that we may enjoy the blessings of the society of those who love God and keep his commandments. We are entirely shut out from the society of such, except through the Review, which we love and prize highly for the truths and information it brings.
Dear brethren and sisters, pray for us, that God will bless us and help us so to live out the truth that others seeing our good works may be made to glorify God, and at last be permitted to enjoy the rest that remaineth for the people of God.
Yours striving for the truth, and hoping at last to overcome through the blood of the Lamb.

A. A. FAIRFIELD

Trenton, Iowa.