BRO. SMITH: Though a stranger to you, I yet feel that we are not strangers to God. I can say that I rejoice in the present truths advocated in the Review. I have seen the truth of the Third Angel's Message, and believe it is the last message of mercy to poor fallen man.
O brethren and sisters, we should be up and doing while it is called to-day, for the night cometh when no man can work. I feel determined by the grace of God assisting me, to take heed to the warning of the faithful and true Witness, and buy gold tried in the fire, and white raiment, that I may be clothed, and anoint my eyes with eye-salve, that I may see, and that it may be my happy lot to meet all the dear saints at the glorious appearing of our Saviour. We have no time to lose. I feel the need of a deeper work of grace in my heart, for the time draweth near when he that shall come will come and will not tarry. If we are faithful we shall be delivered, every one of us, for God is faithful who hath promised.
I praise the Lord for all the blessings that he has bestowed upon me and my family. It was under the preaching of Brn. Holt and Cornell that I saw I was breaking the Sabbath of the Bible, and I am fully persuaded in my own mind that this is the original Sabbath instituted by God at creation. O brethren, let us try to be faithful a little longer, and we shall meet on Mount Zion where we shall part no more.
In hope of eternal life.
W. D. SHARPE
Green Spring, O., Sept. 19th, 1857.
Contending for the Faith
By S. H. Holden
From Bro. Holden.
BRO. SMITH: I would say a few words to cheer our brethren in the Lord through the Review. I am striving to keep the Commandments of God and have the Faith of Jesus. If we would have the faith of Jesus we must contend for that faith that was once delivered to the saints, and that will be by keeping the commandments of God. I believe the time is now fast rolling on when men will not endure sound doctrine, but heap to themselves teachers having itching ears, and turn their ears from the truth unto fables. 2 Tim. iv, 3-5. Time is fast fulfilling, as it rolls along, the 3d chapter of 2 Tim. verses 1-9. We see it down here in the nineteenth century. But, brethren, it only makes me stronger in the Lord and in the power of his might.
Prayer makes the darkest cloud withdraw. Let us put the whole armor on and we shall arrive where Christ has gone.
O Lord, increase my faith and hope,
When foes and fears prevail,
And bear my fainting spirit up,
Or soon my strength will fail.
I mean to contend for that faith that was once delivered to the saints. We find that the Holy Ghost would guide them into all truth and show them things to come, and so it will be now if we keep all of God's commandments and ask in faith nothing wavering; for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea. Let us be faithful to God. I will strive to meet you in the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May we grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. If any of the preachers come this way I would like to have them call on me.
S. H. HOLDEN.
North Leverett, Mass.
Holding Fast to the Truth
By S. Howard, Jr.
From Bro. Howard.
Bro. Smith: I have long felt a desire to communicate a few words to the dear saints scattered abroad, to let them know that I am still trying to hold on to the truth by keeping the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus. It is now one year and eight months since Bro. Cornell came here and preached to us the Third Angel's Message. I do rejoice that I ever heard it, and was willing to keep God's holy Sabbath. I can truly call it a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable. I can say with David, "Thy word is true from the beginning, and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever." Ps. cxix, 160.
I believe that this is the last message to fallen man, and soon our probation will be closed up. Christ will have finished his work in the Sanctuary, and then every case will be decided; and by the grace of God I am determined to confess all my sins in this day of atonement that they may go beforehand to judgment, that Christ may confess my name before the Father, and my sins be blotted out of the book of God's remembrance, and my name retained in the book of life so that I may receive the seal of the living God and be enabled to pass down through the time of trouble; and when Christ is seen on the white cloud with all the angels of glory to convey the waiting saints home to the city of the living God, that I shall be enabled to say in the language of inspiration, "Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him."
Yours in hope of immortality.
S. Howard, Jr.
Monterey, Mich., Sept. 20th, 1857.
P. FOLSOM
By P. Folsom
From Bro. Folsom.
BRO. SMITH: I would say to you by way of encouragement, that the cause in the East is on the rise, and has been since the conference that was held in Boston last January. After so long a drouth in the East it is certainly very cheering to us to have a few embrace the truth. It cheers my poor heart to see the work of the Lord move forward. I am well satisfied the truth will go forward just as long as the light of the Laodicean message is held up to the church. I do hope the servants of the Lord will keep on the track of the present message, and the work of the Lord will prosper in their hands.
P. FOLSOM
Somerville, Mass., Sept. 19th, 1857.
Preparing for the Loud Cry
Bro. I. C. Vaughan writing from Hillsdale, Mich., Sept. 21st, 1857, speaking of the church in that place, says: "There is more of a union in feeling and a desire to be prepared for the coming of the Lord than I have seen expressed for many months past. May the Saviour enable us all to get into our places, and work while we have time left us, that all our sins may be blotted out when Christ leaves the Sanctuary. I want to be more engaged in the work. I want to be prepared. I want to get ready for the loud cry of the message. I feel that the opposition we meet with every day makes the present truth shine brighter and brighter. What a different book the Bible is to me to what it used to be! How plain it is! By it we may know where we are, what is coming, and what we must be to go down through the time of trouble and finally stand with the Lamb on Mount Zion."
A Modern Sodom.
By Editor
We have only to judge the world out of their own mouth. The following glance at one day's events of New York is applicable to more than one city of this union. And when God shall by terrible judgments prove to mankind that he looks not now with more allowance upon sin than he did anciently, will any have grounds to complain of their doom? None. Their own lips have pronounced the just sentence of condemnation. The following from the New York Golden Prize is by no means a solitary instance of secular papers' calling attention to the moral deformity of the age, and acknowledging its desert.
"In the city department of one of the daily papers last week, we read the following heads: 'Elopement from Saratoga,' 'The late Bank Defalcation,' 'Barnum Arrested,' 'A Pitiful Case,'—man found dying of consumption on the ground, 'Highway Robbery, and Attempted Murder,' 'Arrest of Coiners,' 'Little Girl found in the Water,' 'Theft of Valuable Diamonds,' 'A Man Accidentally Killed,' 'River Thieves at Work,'—one shot, 'Accidentally Drowned,' 'Forgery,' 'Swindling Operation,' 'Alleged Swindle by the Keeper of a Loan Office,' 'Supposed Infanticide,' 'Petty Theft,' 'Attempt to take Life,' 'Attempt at Suicide,' and so on. That is a pretty good one day's catalogue; but it would swell out an ordinary newspaper to record all the crimes and casualties that occur in the city during a day and night. Criminals are as thick as mosquitoes in Jersey meadows, and a majority of them escape the vigilance of the police, while a countless gang of swindlers infest and curse the community whom the law does not pretend to interfere with, such as Peter Funks, Ticket swindlers, Tombs lawyers, and Wall-street brokers. We often wonder what sort of places Sodom and Gomorrah were, to be destroyed for their sins, when New York is still above ground."
Half-Armed Christians
Some people undertake a very hard task in matters of religion. The christian life is likened to a warfare, in which the combatant must be well armed; but not a few undertake to fight with only about half their armor on, which renders them liable to many wounds and discomfitures. The christian life is likened again to a race, in which he who runs must lay aside every weight; but these attempt to perform it, and lug the world with them. We often hear them praying, as though it was the end and object of every christian effort, that they may have on the whole armor; as though the work then would be all accomplished as soon as they get the armor on; whereas then they are but just prepared to commence their warfare in the cause of their Master—but just prepared to begin their work. We hear them praying for advancement in the heavenly race, forgetting that those who contended anciently in the game of racing, from whom the figure is taken, never made it an object of study to see how much luggage they could take with them on such occasions.
The Review for the Worthy Poor
By Editor
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By Editor
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Heat of the Earth
By Editor
A FEW more facts, corroborative of our remarks in last week's REVIEW on the internal heat of the earth, by which it appears that the earth as it rolls onward to its final destiny bears within itself the means of its own purification, have come under our observation, and in connection with those remarks, we give them as found in the following item from one of our exchanges:
HEAT OF THE EARTH.—By experiments made during the last year by Professor Piazzi Smyth, at Edinburgh with a series of earth thermometers, imbedded in the earth at varying depths, it was proved that there was a gradually increasing heat of one degree Fahrenheit, for every four feet of depth, so that at less than two and a half miles water would boil, and at less than one hundred miles deep all things must be in a state of complete fusion.
Lecturers and Gestures
A CORRESPONDENT suggests that “lecturers using maps or charts, and using a stick to point with, should lay it down when making gestures; as gestures made with such an instrument are suggestive of a mode of discipline well known in schools.”
Postscript.
By Editor
THE postscript to a letter from Bro. Wm. S. Ingraham reads as follows: "Bro. Hutchins, Bro. Mitchels, and myself are holding a Tent-meeting in McDonough Co., Ills. We have been here over one Sabbath and First-day. Six have come out on the truth: others are on the way. We expect the Lord will do a great work in this place. Our last Tent-meeting in Whiteside Co., was one of some interest. Seven or eight decided to keep the commandments. We shall report particulars soon. I have a strong desire to see the work of the Lord prosper. O brother, do pray for us."
New York Tent Report.
By R. F. Cottrell
RECEIPTS FROM JULY 16, TO THE CLOSE OF OUR MEETINGS.
S Corey, Geo. Daniels each $0,25. C. Drew 0,40, J. Pierce 0,50. J. H. Heggie, D. Baldwin, S. A. Hallock, L. S. Weatherwax, each 1. R. Smalley 2. J. H. Cottrell 2,50. B. Dibble 3. C. P. Thorn, C. P. Buckland, H. Smith, each 5. J M. Lindsay, J. Lawson, each 10. Use of Wagon, &c., 0,75.
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We present no claims against our brethren for past labors, but I would say to those who have not aided in the Tent concern, and who would feel it a privilege to forward the cause with their means, that Bro. Wheeler and myself expect to continue our labors, in new places, as the Lord may open the way. R. F. COTTRELL.
Mill Grove, Sept. 16th, 1857.
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