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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 27, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 5.

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F. MORROW

By F. Morrow

From Bro. Morrow.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS : I too would like to give in my testimony to the goodness of God to us in this day of preparation. When I look around me and see how many there are who make a profession to love God and still are blinded to the test of that love, 1 John ii, 3-5, it makes me more than ever desire to heed the counsel of the faithful and true Witness. I want the "anointing" that I may be able to stand in these perilous times. This truly is a time of deception. If it was not so, it seems to me that some of the brightest minds of the 1844 movement, those that spent their fortunes and their lives, would not be found battling so furiously against the commandments of God, the great wedge that divides us from the world or from those that work iniquity. I, for one, am grieved to find some of those from whom I learned my first lessons in the Advent faith now warring against the only thing that can unite the people of God in these last days; namely "the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." The testimony of Jesus seems to be very much in the way of those that would fain pull down. But my prayer to God is that their eyes may be opened before it is too late. I do not mean those who have lately come up, but those in whom I had the utmost confidence, and who in 1848, I believed were walking in the light and trying with all their might to spread the same.
There is another evidence that the people of God have made their appearance and that the dragon is being wroth, from the many batteries that are brought all to bear against the Review and its managers at Battle Creek. But dear Brn. be not discouraged. Your heavenly Father has prepared you with a goodly number of David's weapons against the hold Philistines. Keep on using them in the fear of Israel's God. He is mighty and those under his command are safe. You may be assured you have the prayers and sympathy of the brethren all through the ranks. When any one of the members of the body is assailed, let us hold each other up by our prayers and encouragement, in short, be one another's keeper.

F. MORROW

Clarence, Iowa.