Extracts from Letters

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 21, 1865

Extracts from Letters.

Sister P. H. Moffett writes from Seville, Mich. : I feel assured that God is in the work of present truth, and that truly the time has come when the Lord has set watchmen on the walls of Zion. Although it has been eight or nine years since I started to serve the Lord, I feel that I have been traveling in darkness and still would have been in the dark, had I not received the knowledge of the third angel's message, that is spreading light and truth through the land. The first I was privileged to hear of this warning message was last summer, when the Mich. tent was at Alma. I there heard a few discourses, and commenced at once the investigation of the Sabbath. I could find no proof that the first day of the week was or is a holy or Sabbath day in the word of God. I also read the review of T. M. Preble, and soon became convinced that the seventh-day was, is, and ever will be, the Sabbath of the Lord our God. I then commenced to keep the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, and feel that I have been blessed in keeping the day that the Lord blessed and sanctified as his own. And though I started alone in this neighborhood, to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, I was not alone long. Some of my people soon commenced to keep the Sabbath. And it has now pleased God to send his messengers this way, that more may receive the truth. Brn. Van Horn and Canright have recently closed a series of lectures in this place. There was, at the commencement of the meetings, a number that were opposed, but prejudice soon began to give way. First one and then another stepped out on the truth, till at last we think we have a sufficient number for organization, and we hope soon to be organized that we may move forward with the body.

Bro. C. M. Davis writes from Montgomery, Ills. : I have never heard any of your messengers preach; but I feel constrained, after reading the Review for two years, to say, This is the way and I can walk in it.