p. 119 | Extracts from Letters

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 12, 1865

Extracts from Letters.

Sister C. Weaver writes from Lockport, N. Y.: Brethren and sisters, let us be steadfast, always abounding in the work of God. Let us strive to be entire overcomers, have our lamps trimmed and burning, waiting for Jesus' coming to take his children home. God will have a pure people without spot or blemish. Are we all that profess to be followers of our blessed Lord and Master, letting our light shine? or do we sometimes shun the cross, because it is so great? Jesus' sufferings were great; cannot we bear the toil, endure the pain, supported by his word? "What is all our sorrow here, if Christ but counts us meet?" I feel like striving earnestly to overcome, that I may be numbered with the chosen ones, and at last be brought in to the kingdom of Christ.

Bro. A. B. Underwood writes from Wayne, Ohio: Bro. White: The cause of God we think is somewhat on the rise in Wayne. There is a strong bond of Christian union in the Advent band. The brethren and sisters are growing stronger,—a holy peace rests upon us as we meet from Sabbath to Sabbath. We feel indeed that this is the day that God has consecrated, blest, and sanctified, as holy time; when he rested from all his works at creation; and we esteem it a great privilege and blessing to obey the command of God,—"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." External opposition is somewhat dying away. Still the truth embraced in the third angel's message is loved and obeyed but by few. We are having an interesting, and profitable Sabbath-School, numbering between twenty and thirty scholars. We have good attention and order. A few Sabbaths since, we broke bread and administered the sacrament to the church in this place, and we felt the blessing of Christ, and his peace and salvation, while we remembered him in his sufferings and death, trusting that when he comes again we shall be permitted to drink the new wine of the Kingdom, when the earth and the heavens are made new, and delivered from the curse incurred by the fall of man.

Sister A. Johnson writes from Southampton, Ill.: As I realize that we are nearing the last day, my prayer is for a living faith that I may be able to stand in the day of the Lord's fierce anger, when he shall come to take vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. I want to be among that number that will be remembered when the Master comes to make up his jewels. The world has no charms for me. The loveliness of my Saviour, and the hope of one day meeting him, and being an inhabitant of those mansions that he has gone to prepare, is to me like the pearl of great price.

"Oh come, my Saviour, come away, And bear me to the sky; Nor let thy chariot wheels delay; Make haste, and bring it nigh.

"I long to see thy glorious face, And in thine image shine, To triumph in redeeming grace, And be forever thine."