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like to write unto you in answer to your letters, but
1 cannot write one half. You speak of my letters
giving you much consolation, I felt to rejoice with
you, in believing there is peace and joy in the Holy
Ghost. O. I thought why have I found grace in
thine eyes that thou shouldest take knowledge of
me seeing lam a stranger ! 0, my sister, if I have
fed you with spiritual food I have nothing to boast
cf; for I feel poor and needy of myself, all the spir
itual blessings flow from the fountain of eternal
Jove. I would say remember that the few lines 1
have written to you have come from an unworthy
sister, feeling the least of all saints if one at all. —
My mind has been very dark and shut up most of
the time, ever since I wrote my last letter to you
which you said gave you so much comfort. I
think if ever I enjoyed the presence of the Son of
God, it was after reading your third letter, it was
truly a great sermon to me. It was a feast of fat
things to me as I said to you before, it made mel
ody in my heart unto the Lord. O, my sister, you
brought so many things to view in that glorious
letter it makes my heart leap for joy while I am
writing about it. You spoke of all the sons of God
shouting for joy in view of the glorious gospel.—
O, it is that which animates the children of God !
In view of the blessed gospel of Jesus Christ they
feel to rejoice vvkh joy unspeakable and full of glo
ry. They often feel like good old Simeon, they
can say mine eyes have seen thy salvation, now
lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. Some
times in view of ibis glorious gospel they feel as if
they were with that heavenly host praising God,
and saying glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace and good will to man, For unto you is
born this day in the city of David a Savior which
is Christ the Lord. O, there is such a fullness I
cannot attain to it, it is too wonderful for me a
poor worm of the dust to fathom ! O, I feel to say
with you there is so much instruction and kind ad
monitions contained in the gospel. I feed as if I
come short of all of them when I look at self. I
often feel to say with the Poet,
“My soul how lovely is the place,
To which my God resorts,
‘Tis heaven to see his smiling face,
Though in his earthly courts,”
Dear sister, after I received your last I thought
I would not write until I received your next, as you
said that you should write soon again. But my
thoughts got to running with you, I thought I
would scribble down a few of them. You wanted
to know about the churches here, I will try to tell
you in my next. You wanted to know if I had re
ceived your letters, I have received four, I think I
have received all you have sent by the reading of
them. I hope you will continue to write to me as
your letters are a great comfort to me in dark
hours. My father and mother takes great delight
in hearing me read them, for they contain such
living food, salvation bv grace and grace alone.
Farewell, LUCY C. WHITCOMB.
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Llano Cos., Texa* 14, 1860.
Dear Brethren the Signs and
Messenger—The time has come for me to send
SOUTHERN BAPTIST MESSENGER.
the srcaii remittance for so great an earthly treas
ure as your correspondence is, through which we
receive many spiritual communications from our
very dear sisters and brothers scattered over this
vast continent. Through this medium we can free
ly tell of the dealings of the Lord with us. I just
returned home from an old fashioned Association
held near Lockhart, Texas, where I got my earthen
vessel filled, where we had a feast of good things
from the Lord, through the preaching of our dear
brethren Stuart, Ainsworth and Malden, and the
precious company of many other brethren and sis
ters ; although the journey of one hundred miles
over rocks and mountains, I was well rewarded, it
was truly a time of rejoicing; it was said by some
that this was near the last meeting of the kind thev
would have, fortheir preachers are almost gone, and
when I looked at our old grey headed preachers,
and no young ones coming to the harvest, it makes
me wonder what will become of us, we know of but
two within a hundred miles of us, and them near
worn out. Brethren and sisters, pray the Lord to
send more laborers into this po>T of Ilis vineyard.
Our preacher appears to be called home on the
right and left. I see a communication through the
Signs by sister Sarah Silveriooth of Mo., that broth
er S. J. Lowe is now confined to his bed, and has
been sick for three [years. I heard brother Lowe
preach, and was well acquainted with him ; he was
an able defender of the truth. I parted with him
at an Association in Indiana some twelve years
ago, and never knew where he was until I saw the
letter from his daughter. I pray the Lord, if it is
His will, that he may be restoied, and sent by the
directions of the Lord to preach for us. Dear sis.
ter Silvertooth, l was attached to you when a child,
but my dear sister, when l read your experience it
made me love you with another kind of love ; your
journey through life has been so much like mine
that it has strengthened my confidence with the
dealings of the Lord with me. I was very young
when the Lord pardoned rnv sins, if at all, it is so
far back that I fear after all it was a chldish notion, I
was only about 16 years old, and now about sixty,
I have lived in doubts and fears ever since, and I
fear shall remain so the balance of my allotted time,
but the Lord is my strength.
Dear sister, let me hear from you and your dear
father again. When I commenced this letter I
thought I would tell my experience, but I have had
so much to talk about that I have taken too much
time and space, and my experience is so little, it
appears that it would be little interest for any
Christian to read, but the little spark is some times
very precious to me. Dear brethren and sisters,
write on, your communication are soul cheering to
us that have no other preaching. Brother editors,
may the Lord strengthen you spiritually and men
tally to bear up under the great labor that is put
on you. Now brother Beebe, should you think this
worth your attention, correct it and publish it, if
not, throw it with the scraps, and I will think all
is right.
I wish to remain your sister in Christ till death,
although unworthy, JANE LUCE.
Sulphur Springs, Ark., Aug., 26,1860*.
Gentlemen Editors —Please give your views
through the Messenger, on the passage of Scrip
ture found in Luke xxii. 36, for I told a missionary
that if he would show me any Scripture that would
show me where Christ* set apart any set of men
to go and preach in a certain country, and pre
scribe their boundery, and pay to them according
to their prescribed boundary, that I would believe
in their paying their men to go and preach to the
heathens, and the above Scripture he cited me la*
but I don’t believe he can apply that to educating
moral young men, and pay them four or five hun
dred dollars to go and preach to the heathens. —
I don’t think he can make good doctrine apply in
that way, for the Scripture says, Then said he un
to them, but now, he that hath a purse let him
take it, and likewise his scrip, and lie that hath no
sword, let him sell his garment and buy one. I
think that the sword spoken of in the Scripture is
nothing more or less than the word of God. Not
withstanding, I see in the same chapter where orb
of the Apostles cut off a man’s oar, and I think
there is some in this day and time when they hear
the truth preached to them feel like their head wa*s
cut off. Now I don’t learn in the Scriptures that
if they had no purse or sword that the people had
to make them up a purse and give it to them, and
if they had no sword that the people had to give
them one. But they had to sell their garments.
Now, I say, if they are so anxious to convert the.
heathens, I think the way for them to get this
purse and sword, is to lay hold of the plow-handle,,
hoe, or some occupation to get money, then if they
feel like it was their duty to go and preach, now
they have got their purse and sword, let them take
it and go ahead, and when they enter into a church
and preach, if the brethren feel it their duty to pay
them something, I have no objection to that course.
Please giv<?your views on the above Scripture, and
correct me if I am wrong in my views, for my de*
sire is to know the truth*
Yours as ever,
L. M. COOK.
P. S. D. W. Patman please give his views on
the 13th chapter and oth veise of Matthew, and
oblige one that is neady, L. M. G,
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Flint Hill, Ga., Oct. 6, 1860.
Messrs Beebe & Purington : —A little good
news, and I cannot refrain from giving it to you.
I am informed that about 20 have been baptised
into County Line church, in Campbell Cos., with
in a month or so. Some from the Missionaries,
and some from the Methodists, and my informant
said, one was a lady 89 years of age. So mote it
be, Yours, &c.
W. H. AWTBEY.
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Homer, La., Oct, 21, 1850.
Bro. Win. M. Mitchell, Please give your views
on Infant Salvation, through the Messenger. I
also wish brother S. Trott’s views on the Milleni
um. In so doing, you will oblige your unworthy
‘ GEORGE SHAW..
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