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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 5, 1864

Letters.

"Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another."

💌 This department of the paper is designed for the brethren and sisters to freely and fully communicate with each other respecting their hopes and determinations, conflicts and victories, attainments and desires, in the heavenly journey. Then they, says the prophet, that feared the Lord spake often one to another. We believe emphatically that we are living in that time. Therefore seek first a living experience and then record it, carefully and prayerfully, for the comfort and encouragement of the other members of the household of faith. Let this department be well filled with lively testimonies of the goodness of God, and the value of his truth.

From Sister Olds.

Bro. White: I am much encouraged by reading the testimonies of those of like precious faith. I with my companion embraced the truth under the labors of Brn. M. E. Cornell and B. F. Snook at Laporte City, Iowa. I praise God that I ever had the privilege of hearing the proclamation of the third angel's message, and that I had a heart willing to receive and try to obey its precepts. I am still trying to keep all of God's commandments, and the faith of Jesus, which we read is the spirit of prophecy. I am a firm believer in spiritual gifts. I believe that God is at the head of this work, and that he is leading out a people to witness his coming, and to be prepared for translation. Oh how careful and prayerful ought we to live! I want to live a faithful, humble, devoted, Christian. I want a humble place among God's children. I want to be among the number that will be ready to meet Jesus when he comes.

We are truly living in perilous times, when it is very necessary to cry earnestly to the Lord for help. I feel as though I was among the weakest, yet I feel like saying, "Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that doth so easily beset us and run the race with patience, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. I do feel thankful that we have an high priest that can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, one who was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. Let us come boldly then unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain help in time of need.

I hope that I received the truth for the love of the truth; and I pray that these truths may sink deeper and deeper into my heart, until I shall be able through the grace of God to overcome the last sin. Oh that my prospects may grow brighter and brighter until the perfect day. F. Olds. La Porte City, Iowa.