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-'V i ' K 54 ZION’S LA N D M A R K S Alabama, Feb. 13th, 1869. Brother Bodenhamer :—Zion’s Landmarks is indeed a messenger of love and comfort to me, more • ban to some who are not deprived of hear ing the Gospel preached as I am. I love the doctrine contained therein, and I love to read the communica tions of the brethren and sisters; and I feel a desire to -write, but feel my own weakness and inability so sensibly, I tremble least I be found ■wanting. In June 1857, my sister- in-law, her babe and I, attempted to cross a river. By a mysterious Pro-' vidence, sister and her babe were drowned. By a most merciful Pro vidence I was saved. I was then made to see myself a sinner against God, that God who saved me from a ■watery grave. I went bowed doM'n in soul and spirit, under the frowns of an angry God, finding no peace or comfort until the second Monday in September, 1858. I took my bible and retired to the orchard, where I had often been before, and seated myself on the ground under a peach tree. I thought I was the most mis erable creature. I opened my bible .as it happened, at the first chapter of Isaiah, and read to the 18th verse. I closed the book ; despair took pos session of my heart. 1 know not Irdw'ton'g'Hefore I opened the book, but when I did, my eyes fell on the JL8th verse: “ Come now, let us rea son together, saith the Lord ; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as ■wool.” Glory‘to Go 1, J exclaimed aloud. I looked around and all things appeared so beautiful; what is the matter with me I asked aloud. I then kneeled down and thought 1 would pray. ; . “ Jesus, lover of iny soul, Let me to thy bo.som fly,” ■was all I said. I arose and "went to the house. But 0, how soon troubles come that I dreamed not of: that 1 ■was deceived; that I loved not the Lord Jesus; and thus I have been from that time until now. 1 offered myself to the church in April 1861, ' and ■was received and baptized. ^ Brother, do as you think best with {his, and pray for your un"worthy sis ter in Christ. SUE CRUTCHER. some of the dealings of the Lord with me. When I first saw my lost and ruined condition, I was s'-anding at the table, when I heard these words spoken: “ God knows all things.” It pierced me to the ver-y heart like an arro"vy. I left the house and ‘Vv ent out. It seemed to me that every sin I ever committed come be fore me ; the tears fell from my eyes like rain ; I could not eat o” work, nor could I sleep, for I could not find a dry place on my pillow to lay my head, and I saw hell was my doom ; I felt like I should die !md hell would be the place for poor me. I begged the Lord to have mercy on my poor soul; I tried to pray, but it seemed to me I gre'vv worse and woi’se; I felt like I should die; I felt like I was willing to have my hands or head cut off, or be nailed to a tree, for the sake of Jesus Christ being my Sa viour. I saw my condition was worse and ■ft'orse ; I gave up to die; I thought if I died it would be just and right; but I made up my mind if I died and went to hell, I would go trying to serve the Lord the very best I could the rest of my life ; and then was the time, if I ever felt light in my life I did then. 0, how I loved’the blessed-Lord and all his people ; I loved them all and •wished, to be with them ; the things tl once loved I noyt" hated, and the things I once hated 1 now loved. O , Those moments were very precious to me. Sister Jane, I ■wish I could express my feelings to you, but I cannot; I know them myself*though I cannot explain them in a proper man'ner to you. I am,' as ever, your true sister, if I be a sister at all. EVELINA GAY. Editorial. Wilson, N, C., March 1. ELDER L. I. BODENHAMER, IBDirOR.. THE DARK AKD CLODDY DAY, “Blow yt: the trumpet in Ziou, und sound an alarm in my holy mountain ; let all the inhabi tants of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord coincth, for it is niKh at hand ; a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall he any more after it, even to the years of many generations.” (Joel 2:1, 2.) Notwithstanding the enormity of the wickedness of the earth, and the high pitch of God’s an- rer. vet the first thirijr He would O ' V ^ Hence, in-the midst of Israel’.s idolatry, selfishness, pride, dark ness and gloom, when it ap|;ear- ed that I'eligion was almost ex tinct, when the visitations of God in the sanctuary were with drawn, and all things appeared religiously, as a dai^k and foggy morning upon the mountains, so lave the Prophet do, is to nive Elder R. C. Leachmg,n died at his residence, near Manassas, Va., on Friday morning, February 19th.— Brother Leachman was well known and highly esteemed by many of our readers. Rocky Mount, N. C., \ January 4th, 1369. j Bear Jane:—You requested me to write my experience, and I will now try to tell what I hope to be jJ@“Twelve dollars was received through Elder A. Partin, Agent, Ral eigh, and acknowledged in No. 3, (January 1st, 1869.) The missing papers will be supplied, if Brother Partin will inform us what Ncs. failed to come to hand. jg@^=*The communications of Elder Marshall McGraw, of South Caroli na, and Brother II. J. Williams, of Georgia, will appear in next number. Also that of Brother Frost, of Ten nessee, notice to Israel, of His intended judgments. What an expression of love and compassion is here set forth by Jehovah. Israel had become empty of true de votion to God, and served him self, as declared by the month of Hosea: ten Hi chapter and first verse ; “Israel is an empty vine, he brhigeth foi th fruit unto him self, according tothejmultitude of liTsTfriiit he hath increased the altars;,'.according to the goodness of his land they hawe made good ly images.” Hence it is, that prosperity, under the mercies of God, is borne by few, for as earthly vessels fill up, spiritual ones get empty, and the emptier they get of divine things, the ful ler they get of carnal things, and from this‘Carual fullness their hearts are divided, and from such divisions originate the diversified altars or faiths, upon which is offered Cain’s, Esau’s, Jmias’s and Balaam’s sacrifices, all of which are to be destroyed. Hosea 10:2. Hence, if the multiplication of al tars and self-service in those days, was an abomination to the Lord, and called for his judgments, how much more should it in this day? And, if those days we*re days of darkness and of, gloomi ness, why do we call these days, days of light and improvement? When there never has been a day of more. spurious doctrine and serving of self, than is now. as to hide the face of the Mount of God, as a mountain is hid in fog. But in the midst of this thick darkness, (lod remembers his beloved Israel in mercy, and says to His trumpeter, “Blow ye the trumpet in Zion.” How spec ial was the commission '■'■in "Zion God’s habitation and I'est for ever. Here was the means con nected with the end and purpose; first, the purpose of God was to turn Israel from darkne.ss to light, and from idolatry to the sei^vice of the livinc; and tl ue God. The end of this purpose was to “shew forth His praise.” Isa. 43 : 21. Hence, it was necessary to this end, to have a trumpet^ and a man to hloiv^ both of which God had appointed and prejlared.— He had given the trumpet a ca pacity to sound, and the man a commission to blow. Joel was not commanded to jfick the ears nor pockets of the people, to rub their heads nor to pat them up on the shoulders, but, simply to blow the tiumpet, and only in Zion at that, and to sound an alarm in God’s holy mountain. Neither does Joel use any other means, than what God has ap pointed; Ave have no account of his blowing awhile, then singing awhile, then praying awhile, then calling upon all the Christians to gfivehim their hand, and all that wanted to go to heaven, to kneel down. All this would have been out side the commission that God gave, so is all such Avork of the present day, and is an effort of modern Balaamites to g«"t men to approve of that, that God by Elijah has long since condemned. But, the question to be answered, by Arminians who claim the right- to institute .auxiliaries to God’s commands,
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