DEAR BRO. WHITE: I have felt it my duty to add my testimony for the truth, as we are told to speak often one to another, and so much the more as we see the day approaching. I started for the kingdom last July. I can say that I believe I am making some progress. I begin to see and realize that I am wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I want to arise out of this lukewarm state. I want my heart more in the work. Lord, put me in the crucible, kindle the fire, purge out the dross. I want to be holy. I feel willing to deny myself of all earthly pleasure and be counted nothing by men that I may win Christ.
Brethren and sisters, I feel that it is high time that we awake out of sleep, and come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty. Let us work while it is called to-day. Let us rise with the message. When I consider that we must be without fault, that God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, I ask myself, Can I ever come to this state of perfection? With God all things are possible. I believe if we trust in God and do our duty we shall come off victorious.
The Review is a welcome visitor. I love the truths it advocates. It is becoming more interesting to me. I can hardly wait from one week to another to hear from the saints. Pray for me that I may overcome and be counted worthy to enter through the gates into the city.
Yours in hope of eternal life.
S. R. Twist.
Vernon, Iowa.
J. W. GLEASON
By J. W. Gleason
From Bro. Gleason.
DEAR BRO. WHITE : I would like to say to the brethren through the Review that there are seventeen here in Osceola and Farmington, Pa., that have come together in gospel order, and are keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. We have our meetings and Sabbath School every Sabbath, and the Lord has never failed to verify his promise to us. He has met with us and that to bless. Although we have trials and difficulties to wade through, I can say as one did anciently, If we put our trust in him that is able to save, they will work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
I would say in short to the scattered few that my way is onward. I am determined never to look back, as did Lot's wife. The cause is rather prospering here, I think. I hope and trust that the Lord will help us to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh that we may be found without spot and blameless when Jesus comes the second time without sin unto salvation.
Then we can say of a truth, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him. That we may be found with the remnant few that will become joint-heirs with Jesus to that inheritance that is incorruptible, undefiled and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for all those that love and serve the Lord with pure hearts fervently, is the prayer of
Yours in hope of eternal life,
J. W. GLEASON
Osceola, Tioga Co., Pa.
The Timing of Death
If we be christians our death will not occur too soon, it will not occur too late; it will just take place when it shall be the greatest contribution to the praise of Him that redeemed us by his blood, and when we are fittest for the paradise of our God.
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
By Editor
"THE N. Y. Observer finds in the events that are transpiring in the world evident signs of the approaching millennium. After reviewing the indications of the religious progress in the East, it says of England and France:
“"Both of them will yet co-operate in opening up a highway through Syria into the heart of Asia. It is in vain for the politics of the world to set up against the will of God and the ways of providence. There is a system in the divine administration of the world that embraces the revolutions of empires, the setting up of one, the downfall of another. The Jews are turning their eyes toward the land of their fathers. Believers in the false prophet are frantic in the evidences of an approaching catastrophe. China and India are yearly becoming more accessible and placable. These are signs of the times. Do they not promise a new and glorious day at hand? There are those who see in the signs of the times, the dark, portentous signs that appear in our own and other lands, the most convincing proofs that the day of the Lord is at hand. The great tribulation has come. Hosts are gathering to battle. Europe will in all probability be convulsed with war before the year is over. The western continent now trembles under the march of armies more numerous than ever trod its soil before. These are looked upon as harbingers of a coming crisis in the world's history. Let us be ready. Watch and pray."'
The above is given to show that the present state of the world, and the ominous events now transpiring, are attracting the attention of others besides professed Adventists. We would be as willing as any others to read in these things, portents of good to the world, be it a temporal millennium or any other blessing, did the word of God sustain such a view. But when its utterances are all to the contrary, we would not deceive ourselves, nor endeavor to mislead others by promising them such things. It is, however, significant that the signs of the times are so portentous as to arrest the attention of all.
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.
Do not keep stirring the ashes of dead things in your conscience; do not keep turning over the leaves of memory, debiting the soul with a thousand debts that you can never pay; do not keep looking within, trying if you can to strike a balance—that after all if you are not so good you are not so bad, and therefore that you have a chance of escape. Leave the whole thing; it is a bankrupt concern : look out from the ruin, look up to Him who has taken your debts upon his own shoulder.
The lightning may rend the gnarled oak; the earthquake may engulf the most splendid capital upon earth; the hurricane may scatter the noblest dynasties like drift-wood upon the waves of the desert ocean; but neither lightning, nor tempest, nor storm, can injure the redeemed soul of the humblest saint. All the winds of heaven may beat upon the least living branch of the living vine, but all their combined force cannot wrench that branch off.
Man's nerve can inspire him to do one grand, heroic deed; but it requires wonderful grace to enable him to go on patiently and persistently, fulfilling the small duties, and bearing meekly the petty trials of social, domestic, national, and individual life. Courage is far more easy than patience; thousands have courage to dare who have not patience to endure.
God comforts us in the midst of troubles by sanctifying those troubles to us. Not only are they needful, but God makes them work for good. The tear that springs from the heart cleanses the eye, and enables you to see beyond the limited horizon of time, and to catch a glimpse of the glory of that better rest that remains for the people of God.
The springs out of which streams of comfort will come to you, O believer, are not found in the marshes of this world, nor dug out by you in its cold, bleak rocks; they are found in the city of our God—they are in the uplands of glory—they are in the crystal fountains of Zion; they are in the Rock of Ages.
If we lived less in the present, and a vast deal more in the future, we should be happier than we are now. We have nothing to do with the present, but to conquer its temptations, to beat down its evils, to fulfill our duties to our God, and our obligations to all mankind.—Sel.
APPOINTMENTS.
PROVIDENCE permitting, Bro. and sister White will hold meetings at Mannsville, N. Y., Aug. 10 and 11; Northern New York, 17 and 18; Northern Vermont or Canada, 24 and 25.
Appointment for Northern New York.
By H. Hilliard
THE meeting for Northern New York, August 17 and 18, appointed by Bro. White, will be held at Buck's Bridge. A general attendance of the brethren and sisters is requested.