Extracts from Letters

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 6, 1864

Extracts from Letters.

Bro. W. H. Slown writes from Money Creek, Ills.: I can say with one of old, As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. We mean to go up and possess the goodly land. Through God's grace, we are fully able. Brethren and sisters, let us take hold of the work. It is a fact that Jesus is soon coming. The wheat will be gathered into the garner and the tares will be burned up. Shall you and I be of the number that will stand on Mount Zion, having our robes washed and made white? Or shall we be of that number that will call for rocks and mountains to fall on us and hide us?

I would be glad if some messenger could come this way. There is a great interest to hear preaching. Several persons have told me that they would do something toward paying the expenses of a minister to come here.

Sister Mary Baker writes from Manlius, N. Y.: I feel to praise the Lord for the present truth. My prayer is that I may live out these holy truths, and stand at last with the blood-washed throng in glory. We love the Review. We feel that it is a messenger of truth. It has carried the truth to our dear one in the army; and it makes his heart glad to turn from the field of blood and carnage, and read the testimonies of those who are on the road to Mount Zion. Oh that we may all be ready when Christ comes.

Bro. J. Jones writes from Duran, Pippin Co., Wis.: We have meetings at my house every Sabbath; and notwithstanding the opposition we have to meet with, four have been added to our number this summer. We are waiting for some messenger to come this way this fall. The seed that Bro. Ingraham sowed here, is like the leaven hid in the three measures of meal. I feel to rejoice when I read the Review, to see what the truth is doing in different parts of the land.