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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 26, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 23, No. 22.

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JAMES SAWYER

By James Sawyer

From Bro. Sawyer.

Bro. WHITE: If one have a living Christian experience, it will be manifest in the life. It can without doubt in some measure be expressed by correspondence. Its effects will be apparent at home, and its influence will be shed abroad.
Let not my "light be hid under a bushel," if words expressed in encouraging sentences form a part of the duty of life. It may be that the cares of life are engaging my mind too much, and that weekly or periodically I should endeavor to add a mite to the testimony of living witnesses. It may be duty to try to write once in a while. I have written at times and then destroyed my productions, thinking them of so little account. Years ago it was my desire to exert a moral influence by the pen,—and not only by the pen, but by all the ability God had placed in my possession. And I think it was none other than a strong desire to yield to moral obligation that induced me to embrace the Advent faith.
Now is particularly a time when every means should be used to advance the cause of Christ in view of the coming of his kingdom.
How fast evidences increase that God's Holy Spirit will not always strive with men; and yet how few believe the imminent future; but, "As it was in the days of Noah so shall the coming of the Son of man be."
"Let every lamp be burning."

JAMES SAWYER

Coopersville, Mich.