The Laodicean State of the Church
By O. B. Stiles
Bro. Smith:—I have for some time neglected to write to you, hoping that I should be able to send the pay for the paper, but I cannot at present; and was it not for the refusal to stop the paper that I have seen in the Review, (for lack of means to pay,) I should have made the request before now, although it would have been a great disappointment to me not to have the paper; for the precious truths it contains and the communications from the brethren and sisters of like precious faith have often cheered my drooping spirits; and then have I taken fresh courage and renewed my covenant with God, and strove more earnestly to overcome and to watch over my heart and keep it. The Laodicean state of the church has for some months occupied my mind; and I am satisfied that the testimony and application in the Review, is correct. O that God would, by his holy Spirit, seal this instruction to the hearts of his dear children throughout the length and breadth of the land, that that zeal and holiness of heart which the dear Redeemer desires his followers to be possessed of and exhibit, might blaze forth, that the precious truths of God's word might be set home to the hearts of the honest more forcibly, and they all be brought into the unity of the faith. O that God would show me all my secret faults and cleanse my heart from every thing that is contrary to his holy will, and bring my will into subjection to his, that I may finally be one of the redeemed that shall dwell in his presence. O. B. Stiles.
St. Johns, Mich.