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ON KEEPING THE HEART. No. 4.
Earlier text: DESTRUCTION IS COMING

OBITUARY.

By Elon Everts

It becomes my painful lot to announce the death of my dear companion. After a long and painful sickness from the 11th of August last, she fell asleep on the 25th inst. Her disease was the same which she has had for years, a billious habit. For her I mourn not as those without hope; for in her last hours she said all was light, all was peaceful. She fell asleep in Jesus I doubt not, and her full faith was that her coming Jesus will soon exclaim, Ye that sleep in the dust, awake! with my dead body arise!
Brother Hart preached on the occasion from Job xix, 25, to the comfort and instruction of the congregation.
ELON EVERTS.
Round Grove, Ills., Oct. 29th, 1856.

Letter from Bro. Holt.

By George Washington Holt

Bro. Smith: Permit me to add my testimony with those who believe the precious and sublime truths of holy Writ, which are peculiar to this generation. I hail with joy the weekly visits of the Review, which bears a bold testimony for those portions of truth. It is cheering to read the spirited epistles, and the humble confessions of some who have erred from the right path.
Dear brethren, I sympathize with those who are searching for the whole truth, and not only to know the argument, but the power and sanctifying influence upon the heart. The latter I think is much wanting at present. We may have a knowledge of the present truth, and outwardly keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus, and think we are "rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing;" when, in fact, we are "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked."
Without the Spirit of truth burning in our heart, and shut up like fire in our bones, and burdened to be delivered, and holding the last Message of mercy in an indifferent manner, are we not lukewarm? I think I hear a response from many of my brethren, Yes, I have felt a lack in our preaching meetings, in our social and prayer meetings, in the family circle, and in our private conversation. O, there is not that fervent love for the brethren that once was, and my mind is occupied in the things of this world more than it was a few years ago. I would that the whole church were sensible of this fact. Shall we continue to go the way that all reformers have gone before us? Shall we let the love of the world, and the lust of the eye deceive us, and we lose the kingdom at last? God forbid, beloved brethren.
Let us heed the counsel of the true Witness. Buy gold tried in the fire, white raiment that we may be clothed, and anoint our eyes that we may see. You talk as though we were Laodiceans, and this counsel of the true Witness was addressed to us! Yes, I do believe that we who are in the Third Message with the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus, are the church this language is addressed to; and we cannot be too soon in applying for tried gold and white raiment, and eye-salve that we may see.
Let me entreat you as a brother to arise and come away from thy lukewarmness, and have faith that has been tried in the furnace, and quenched the violence of fire. God hath chosen you, poor, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom. White raiment, the righteousness of the saints, Eye-salve, a baptism of the Holy Spirit which will help us to see clearly the past, present and future. Let us go to the Lord in good earnest for these things; for he standeth at the door and knocks, and if we open to him immediately he will come in to us, and sup with us, and we with him.
The signs in the natural, moral and political world, all, tell us the day of trouble is near. The Third Message evinces to us that probationary time will soon end, and the chariot wheels of Him whose right it is to rule will soon appear.
"O let us be ready to hail the glad day." G. W. HOLT. Milan, O., Oct. 26th, 1856.

Evangelizing the World.

By Editor

The General Agent of the American Tract Society thus writes:
"How great our privilege, how high our responsibility, beloved brethren, in having in our hands one of the mightiest agencies for good with which God has blessed the church and the world. More than two thousand different evangelical works in eleven languages, selected by thirty years' labor of the Society—the choicest productions of many of the most able and holy men of different denominations—the very cream of the gospel—free from controversy and sectarianism, adapted to all ages and classes, accompanied by 500,000 monthly numbers of the American Messenger and Child's Paper, all filled with thoughts that breathe, and words that burn—one hundred and eighty millions copies, exclusive of periodicals already sent forth on messages of love, and about 30,000 copies a day now being issued by twenty steam presses. These publications are scattered over our land and world, by many local auxiliary societies; by our five or six hundred colporteurs carrying the bread of life to our unevangelized masses; by nearly ten thousand voluntary colporteurs or monthly distributers in our cities and large towns, purifying those great centers and fountains of influence; by the pastors and members of our churches, by the missionaries on our frontiers, and by hundreds of missionaries and native converts in foreign and heathen lands. What friend of the Redeemer can fail to thank God and take courage when he sees such a mighty and holy agency encompassing and blessing the world?"
These are indeed powerful agencies, and, under ordinary circumstances, capable of producing infinite good. But the inquiry that spontaneously arises as we look abroad upon the world is, Where are their results? for it presents to us nothing but the mournful spectacle of growing worse and worse, and that continually. In view of the gigantic efforts, the good design, of which no one can question, put forth to arrest this decay of morality, how shall we account for this state of things? If there are already "ten thousand voluntary colporteurs in our cities and large towns," endeavoring to purify "these great centers and fountains of influence," why are they not purified? Why are they rather, according to the testimony quoted in another column, rapidly descending to the level of Sodom and Gomorrah? Do these queries admit of solution? They do; but only on the ground that the solemn voice of prophecy is now fulfilling, which says that in the last days perilous times shall come, and evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse.
Now when any agency for good is brought to bear upon a community, and fails to arrest its downward course, it argues there, a bad state of morals and religion; and the more powerful the agency at work, if it produces no results for the better, the worse does it speak for the condition of that community. This principle holding good the world over, what shall we conclude when we behold the most enlightened portions of our globe, our own country not excepted, in spite of all the light of science and the gospel, fast sinking in every principle of morality, virtue and true religion?
He who foresaw the end from the beginning, has told us that goodness and virtue should gradually cease to find an abode in the hearts of men; that wickedness and vice in most hideous forms, should increase and flourish, till his little flock, scattered and few, would cry day and night for deliverance; and the exclamation was wrung even from our Saviour's lips, "When the Son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth?" These declarations are drawing to their fulfillment. No agencies that man can employ, however powerful, can stem the tide that is setting in towards destruction. Truly broad is the way that leads to death, and many there be that go in thereat. All that we can expect is, that by earnest efforts in declaring the plain truth as it is, a few may be saved.

Conference.

By Merritt E. Cornell

Providence permitting there will be a general meeting of Sabbath-keepers in Monterey, Allegan Co., Mich., commencing Friday, Nov. 14th, at 1 o'clock, P. M., and to hold over Sabbath and First-day.
The wants of the cause in Allegan Co. will be considered at this meeting. Bro. Joseph Bates is especially requested to attend.
In behalf of the church. M. E. CORNELL.

To Friends in the West.

By Editor

Bro. and Sr. White design spending several weeks in the West, and wish to be addressed at Round Grove, Whiteside Co., Ills.

Letters.

Mrs. S. Holmes, J. T. Ongly, J. W. Raymond, P. A. Dorsey, L. D. Parker, L. A. Langworthy, I. Trow, E. R. Seaman, B. A. & J. Philips.

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Review and Herald · Nov 6, 1856