DEAR BRO. WHITE: As I am always glad to hear from the brethren and sisters scattered abroad, I feel called upon to speak and let them know that I am still holding to the blessed hope that Jesus is soon coming to gather the faithful ones home. And my desires are to so live that I may receive the welcome, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you. But when I think how holy and pure we must be when Christ comes, I feel doubtful of being one of those that will be made like Christ, to reign with him. But I know there is worthiness in Jesus. I know he died to save us from all our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, if we are faithful to confess our sins, and to turn ourselves from every evil way. I do not believe with some that we cannot be perfect while here, but when Jesus comes he comes to make us perfect. I believe we must repent of all our sins. I believe we are down near that time of trouble brought to view in Dan. xii, 1, such a time of trouble, it says, as never was since there was a nation, even to that same time; and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that is found written in the book.
Brethren and sisters, my prayer is that we may so live that we shall be kept from the hour of temptation brought to view in Rev. iii, 10, which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth.
I find that we here in Crane's Grove are not without temptations and trials. I never knew anything comparatively about trials till I came into the present truth, and that has been only about four years. But I feel thankful to God for his goodness in showing me his truth, which I do love, and mean by his assisting grace to live out, though I may meet with trials by the way. I am glad to say that those here that have been cold and backward, and have been in deep trial, are beginning to take hold and live again, and are trying to settle all difficulties, and get into that place where they can claim the blessed promises.
I think it is time that all our troubles were settled up, and we standing with our loins girt about with truth, like unto men that wait for the Lord, that when he returns we may be glad and rejoice.
Dear brethren and sisters, I hope that God will fit us all up to stand in the time just before us. May the Lord help us to purify ourselves by obeying the truth. I feel that the Spirit of the Lord is calling me to get up higher where I can enjoy more of his pardoning love, and his Spirit that will guide us into all truth, and where I shall be enabled to stand in the time that is just before us. Pray for me, that I may be found without a spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing when Christ comes.
Your unworthy brother looking for eternal life when Jesus comes.
SETH NEWTON.
Crane's Grove, Ills.
Church Organization and Christian Fellowship
By H. J. Bonfield
From Bro. Bonifield.
DEAR BRO. WHITE: Allow me to say that there are a few of us here in the vicinity of Osceola, Iowa, who are still striving to overcome the evils of this world by keeping the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus. We feel much cheered by the late visit from Bro. Brinkerhoof. He spent two Sabbaths with us, and his pointed testimony was indeed meat in due season. On the last Sabbath of his stay we had a social meeting, and received a spiritual strengthening. About twenty arose as witnesses of the love of God.
On the evening following, the church met for business, when Bro. Wm. Beaton was set apart to the office of elder by the laying on of hands; also Bro. M. W. Neale was re-elected deacon, and set apart in the same manner, after which we attended to the ordinances of the Lord's house.
The good Spirit of the Lord was in our midst. Some of our brethren who were more than sixty years of age attended to the ordinance of washing feet for the first time in their lives. They seemed to receive a great blessing in so doing, and could exclaim that it was good to serve the Lord. Our prayer is that the good seed sown in our midst by Bro. B. may increase an hundred fold by the time he returns to us again.
Our church here numbers thirty-eight members, and I believe the most of us are trying to rise with the message. I believe the plan of organization is doing a good work; for order must be very essential to the perfecting of the church.
I still feel like pressing my way through to the kingdom, and can truly say that I have not become weary in well-doing. I think we should consecrate all to the will of God; but how oft, when we would do good, evil is present with us. There seems to be a war waging in our members to bring us into captivity and death. O, may the time soon come when we shall be delivered from such a state of things, when we shall see the end of our faith, even the salvation of our souls.
But as the signs portend that the time is near at hand, how necessary it is that we all be diligently engaged in making preparations for the event. How necessary that we make preparation to meet our Lord at his return; for soon the opening heavens will proclaim a Saviour near. Soon we shall hear the notes of the trump of God which will awake the sleeping saints when probation will have ceased, and no more time be allotted us in which to make preparation to stand with those that will be redeemed from the earth and sing the new song upon mount Zion. Then while time is allotted us, let us all be found heeding the instructions and admonitions brought to view in the word of God. Let us indeed search the Scriptures to see what God has required of us in order to be obedient children, and be sanctified through obedience to the truth, and that we may live faithful and be counted worthy to obtain an inheritance in the world to come.
Yours striving to overcome by the blood of the Lamb.
H. J. BONFIELD.
Osceola, Iowa.
Bearing Troubles Together
“My troubles are frequently the greatest trials, because we endeavor to bear them alone.
PRAYER.
PRAYER gives to needy, sinful man, at any and every hour, the great privilege of access to the King of kings and Lord of lords, to the Most High and Most Holy, and this with the utmost freedom and confidence; the access of a child to a parent.
It is a holy intercourse with God—a simple, unfeigned, humble, and ardent offering of the heart before God—the application of want to him who alone can relieve it; the voice of sin to him who alone can pardon it. It is the urgency of poverty, the prostration of humility, the fervency of penitence, the confidence of truth. It is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. It is the "Lord, save us, we perish," of drowning Peter; the cry of faith to the ear of mercy.
Go to the Prayer Meeting
Go TO THE PRAYER MEETING.—Let your attendance on the meetings be regular and constant. If your faith is weak, go. If your love is chilled, go. If hope be clouded, go. Every professed Christian should be sure, if possible, to go, that the activities of the soul may be stirred up and drawn out in the service of Christ. If you have long stayed away, and the Christian armor has got rusty, go. "Prayer makes it bright," burnishes the shield, and helmet, and the breastplate of righteousness. Go, if only a few are expected to be there, for if you stay away the number will be less. Go, expecting the presence and refreshings of the Holy Spirit, and expecting to meet Christ there agreeably to his promise, that where two or three are gathered together in his name, he will be in the midst of them. Be sure to go, always to go, to the prayer meeting, when possible, even at the sacrifice of ease and profit in worldly things, and you will find a rich reward in it to your own soul and see blessings descend upon the church of Christ.
APPOINTMENTS.
👉 WE will, providence permitting, meet with the church at Little Prairie, Wis., March 22 and 23; Battle Creek, Mich., the 29th.
It may be in the providence of God that we visit Iowa and Minnesota in the months of May and June.
JAMES WHITE.
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet with the brethren in Hillsdale, Sabbath, March 15. Evening after the Sabbath and on first-day the 16th, the church in Hillsdale and vicinity will be organized.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
Providence permitting, I will meet with the brethren on my Eastern tour as follows:
Buck's Bridge, N. Y., March 14–16.
Rouse's Point, ‘‘ ‘‘ 18.
Berkshire, Vt., ‘‘ 21–23.
Wolcott, ‘‘ ‘‘ 28–30.
Roxbury, ‘‘ April 4–6.
Washington, N. H., ‘‘ 10–12.
Boston, Mass., ‘‘ 18–20.
I expect to visit several places in N. Y. on my return, and will appoint in due time.
M. E. CORNELL.
Business Department.
By James White
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NOTE FROM BRO. LOUGHBOROUGH.
By John Norton Loughborough
DEAR BRO. WHITE: The meetings are still in progress in this place, and a good interest is manifest to hear. I have already given sixteen lectures. Sectarians are troubled; for their craft is in danger. Ministers warn their flocks to give no countenance to teachers of error, but still the people come out to hear. Several are satisfied that we have the truth on the Sabbath question, and we trust some will be led to obey. We shall remain here some ten days more.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
Ransom, Hills. Co., Mich.
DISCUSSION ON SPIRITUALISM.
By Moses Hull
THERE will be a discussion between F. L. WADSWORTH and myself, in Stuart's Hall, in the city of Battle Creek, commencing on Monday, March 17, at 7 o'clock p. m., and continuing three or four evenings.
The proposition for discussion reads as follows:
> Resolved, That the teachings of Spiritualism are better adapted to the moral advancement of the human family than the teachings of Christianity.
All who are interested in an examination of the relative merits of Spiritualism and Christianity, are invited to attend.
MOSES HULL.
TO BRO. BYINGTON.
By J. H. Waggoner
I will appoint to meet you at Colon on Friday, March 28. I would be pleased to have you meet the church in Burlington on the Tuesday evening following.
J. H. Waggoner.
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Miraculous Powers, compiled by Elder M. E. Cornell, is now out of press and ready for delivery. It is a work of 143 pages, containing a narrative of incidents and sentiments from the eminently pious and learned, and from some of the most reliable historians, fairly representing the faith of the church in all ages upon the subject of miraculous powers, with an introduction by Elder James White, giving the Scripture testimony on the perpetuity of spiritual Gifts.
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