DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: When I left Roosevelt, N. Y., last Fall, I felt like dedicating all to God without reserve, henceforth to live to his honor and glory. When I look back upon my past life and see how far short I have come of Bible holiness, and of being all that the Lord has required of me, tears of repentance have freely flowed; and I have felt that every sin must be confessed and forsaken, that they might be blotted out when the times of refreshing come, and we be sheltered in the day of the Lord's fierce anger, when his wrath will be poured out upon a guilty world. We are fast hastening to the judgment, when we shall have to give an account for the deeds done here in the body whether they be good or evil. We are fast approaching an important period in this world's crisis, and are we preparing for it? Does our daily walk, life, and conversation, and the example that we set before others, does it all tell that we fully believe that the coming of the just One is near?
O may the Lord help us to fully awake and gird on the armor anew, to let go of the world and lay up a treasure in heaven. The Lord requires the whole heart, half-hearted service never will satisfy him; a few faint prayers or desires never will carry us to the desired haven of rest, but we must earnestly seek the Lord, both in the closet and around the family altar, and obtain the victory there; then we can have a living testimony that our ways please the Lord.
As to the cause here in Waverly I will say, the Lord is reviving his work in our midst. There has been a deep heart-searching time among the saints here for a few weeks past and the most of them feel like returning unto the Lord with all their hearts. "Return unto me and I will return unto you saith the Lord, and will heal all your backslidings." Precious promise to his people! What love towards his erring children! O who would not return unto the Lord that he might return unto them. The gifts of the Spirit now being developed, have given a new impetus to the cause and greatly strengthened and encouraged the little flock in this place. Last Sabbath the Lord met with us in a special manner, and the sweet melting Spirit of Jesus rested upon us, and we were refreshed and cheered on our way heaven-ward. May the Lord enable us to faithfully heed the counsel of the true Witness and zealously repent of all our sins that Jesus may come in and sup with us and we with him. I can truly say I feel a hungering and thirsting for full and free salvation. I must have eternal life at the loss of all things else.
Yours in hope.
M. S. FINCH.
Waverly, Sept. 24th, 1857.
P. S. Where is Bro. Frisbie? cannot he or some one else visit the church here before long? There are some here waiting to go forward in the ordinance of baptism when opportunity shall permit.
M. S. F.
God’s Gracious Dealings
By Alice M. Eaton
From Sister Eaton.
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: It is a pleasure to let you know of the dealings of God with me. He is gracious and merciful. I cannot believe there is one among the saints of God that has more reason to praise and glorify his holy name than I. He has led me in a way that I know not. When I was wandering, and slighting all his goodness and his grace, when his wrath might well have been kindled, and his fierce anger burned against me, then his gentle voice in tones of pity called after me, "Oh turn ye! oh turn ye, for why will ye die?" Oh how I wish that my heart might ever feel, and be melted by these gentle entreaties. Sometimes I desire to hide myself until I can repent in an acceptable manner in His sight; then again I seem to be indifferent and unfeeling. Yet in the midst of all this confusion of mind, I know that I love the Sabbath of the Lord, and those who are trying to keep it holy unto him. Yes if I know my heart, I love them as myself. I rejoice to hear from them and to know that any of them are giving heed to the faithful and true Witness.
I am striving to get on higher ground, to get nearer my Redeemer, where the shadow of his wing will be my covert from the world, and my safeguard from sin. I want to be a christian in every sense of the word. I would that I was more faithful, and not so far behind the company with which I desire to travel to the kingdom of God. It is now five years since I first heard of the Third Angel's Message, and began to see light on the Sabbath. I was with the brethren and sisters a short time, but since then I have had to go alone into a world of opposition, such as none know except those who have had the same trials; but the truth shines brighter and brighter.
I was weak upon all the Messages, and had no paper to assist me. When I have been questioned very closely how I knew this and that, and why this was not more extensively known, I have tried to answer to the best of my ability, and then retired alone to some secret spot to pour out my grief to God. I knew that this people loved God, and I meant their God should be mine. When I have wandered he has set me right, and when I have fallen he has raised me up, and I believe he will save me if I do his will.
Yours in the truth, ALICE M. EATON.
Lynn, Mass., Sept, 11th, 1857.
Rejoicing in the Third Angel’s Message
Bro. J. D. Triplet writes from Hillsdale, Mich., Sept. 8th, 1857. “Bro Smith: The Review and Herald has ever been a welcome visitor to me. It advocates truth which I love. I want to heed the message given to the Laodicean church, for it has been the means of showing me my wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked condition. I want to buy the gold, and white raiment, eye-salve, and overcome all my besetting sins, that I may be saved with the happy remnant of God's people. I rejoice that I ever heard the Third Angel's Message, and for the religion that makes us feel love to God and the brethren.”
New England Conferences,
By E. L. Barr.
I wish to add a few thoughts to what has already been said about general Conferences.
1. Is it not the duty of the few scattered saints located far from the seat of the State Conference, who find it impossible to be represented by delegation to do it faithfully by letter.
2. Will it not be the privilege of those dear isolated saints that have never enjoyed an interview with those of like precious faith, and are not able to attend the Conference, to, when they learn the time and place of holding the same, represent their own case also by letter and thereby throw their influence into the scale of truth and secure the sympathies and prayers of the church.
3. In view of the imminent danger to which all are exposed, shall there not be an effort made and that speedily, to arise and stand on high and holy ground, where we have the favor of God and are kept by his power through faith unto salvation.
E. L. Barr.
New Ipswich, N. H. Sept. 13th, 1857.
Religion Is Our Leading Business
Are you a professor of religion? Then remember that religion is your leading business. What would you think of professional men who should attend to everything else before their profession?
The Word Has a Testimony for All
The word of God has a testimony for all. There is no character, no condition owing to whatever circumstances, and no state of feeling, to which it has not something applicable. Reader, are you an open sinner, in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity? Your case is not passed over. Are you an open professor, but a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God? There is something for you. Are you in a lukewarm condition and ready to be spued out of the Lord's mouth? It has tender counsel for you then, but terrible denunciations if you heed it not. Are you all life and zeal in the cause of God, following him fully like Caleb and Joshua, faithful to every charge, a man after his own heart? There is testimony for you then; and the testimony is that such shall inherit all things. Seek the word that applies to your case; if wrong it will invariably point out the way to become right; if right it will encourage you to persevere.
EXCELLENCY OF CHRIST.
He is a path, if any be misled;
He is a robe, if any naked be:
If any chance to hunger, he is bread,
If any be a bondman he is free;
If any be but weak, how strong is he!
To dead men life he is, to sick men health;
To blind men sight, and to the needy wealth—
A pleasure without loss, a treasure without stealth.
APPOINTMENTS.
By Editor
General Meeting at Bowne
By Editor
As it is desired by brethren in Bowne and Caledonia to have Conferences in both those places, I have concluded to appoint a general meeting in Bowne, Sept. 26th and 27th, which will accommodate brethren from Vergennes, Ionia, Hastings, Portland and Caledonia.
Conference at Caledonia
By Editor
Also a Conference to be held in Caledonia, Oct. 3d and 4th, to accommodate brethren from Monterey, Grand Rapids, Otsego, Watson and Bowne.
Request for Brethren to Attend
By J. B. Frisbie
Bro. and Sr. White are requested to attend these meetings, and any of the ministering brethren who may have opportunity.
J. B. Frisbie.
2 PETER III.
Internal Heat of the Earth.—Prof. Silliman takes a decided position in favor of the theory that the center of the earth is a fused mass of mineral matter. His chief argument is the phenomenon of volcanoes, which he calls the earth's chimneys and escape pipes. There are hundreds of them always in operation—hundreds are always dormant; they are all over the earth and the sea's surface, and they come from the bowels of the earth. The fiery sea in the centre of the earth—says the Professor, boils over the tops of her chimneys, and when these chimneys become choked, it forces new vents, breaking out even under the sea.
Taking the above fact in connection with the declaration of Peter that "the heavens and the earth which are now by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men," and we see how the agency is prepared and kept in readiness for this event.
The elements, says Peter, shall melt with fervent heat. And if, as the fountains of the great deep were broken up in the days of the flood, so the fountains of the great sea of internal fire should now be broken up, and pour their molten flood over the surface of the earth, and that slight change take place in the atmosphere which only is necessary to render it one sheet of lurid flame, how long before the elements would melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the things therein be burnt up? Who can but be impressed with the designs of Providence, when he sees the agencies all prepared and only waiting the fiat of the Almighty to accomplish that work of destruction which he has said shall surely come to pass? We have an interest in these things.
Dr. Clarke has the following note on 2 Pet. iii, 10: "The heavens shall pass away with a great noise. As the heavens mean here and in the passages above, the whole atmosphere, in which all the terrestrial vapors are lodged; and as water itself is composed of two gases, eighty-five parts in weight of oxygen and fifteen of hydrogen, or two parts in volume of the latter, and one of the former; (for if these quantities be put together, and several electric sparks passed through them, a chemical union takes place, and water is the product; and vice versa, if the galvanic spark be made to pass through water, a portion of the fluid is immediately decomposed into its two constituent gases, oxygen and hydrogen,) and as the electric or ethereal fire is that which in all likelihood, God will use in the general conflagration; the noise occasioned by the application of this fire to such an immense congeries of aqueous particles as float in the atmosphere, must be terrible in the extreme. Put a drop of water on an anvil, place over it a piece of iron red hot, strike the iron with a hammer on the part above the water, and the report will be as loud as a musket; when, then, the whole strength of these opposite agents is brought together into a state of conflict, the noise, the thunderings, the innumerable explosions, (till every particle of water on the earth, and in the atmosphere is, by the action of the fire, reduced into its component gaseous parts,) will be frequent, loud, confounding and terrific, beyond every comprehension but that of God himself."
P. ROBINSON
By P. Robinson
PROVIDENCE permitting, we intend to hold a Conference, commencing Oct. 3d, near Catlin Center, N. Y. We have written to Brn. Rhodes and Cottrell to attend.
P. ROBINSON
Catlin, Sept., 18th, 1857.
Conference in Lancaster, Massachusetts
By J. C. Day
THERE will be a Conference in the north part of Lancaster, Mass., to be held the 3d and 4th of Oct. Brethren in and out of the State are invited to attend.
In behalf of the brethren. J. C. DAY.
General Conference in Washington, New Hampshire
By John C. Day
THERE will be a General Conference held at the Christian meeting house in Washington, N. H., south part of the Town, to commence 6th day Oct. 9th, at one o'clock P. M. to continue Sabbath and First-day, and longer if it should be thought advisable, for the special benefit of the Church, and to transact such business as may come before the meeting. Will the brethren make an effort to get together as far as possible, and come in the Spirit of the Laodicean message, that God's name may be glorified and the meeting prove a special blessing to the cause of truth.
I am informed that Bro. Pierce of Vt. is expected to attend these Conferences with Bro. Barr.
In behalf of the brethren, JOHN C. DAY.
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