the natural heart, and develop character. Brn. _____ and _____ moved with a perfect restraint upon them while in _____. Such preaching will never do the work that God designs to have accomplished. There is enough scringing, and crippling, and wrapping up pointed truths, which rebuke sin by the ministers of the nominal churches. Unless souls embrace the message aright, and their hearts are prepared to receive it, they had better let it entirely alone. p. 300, Para. 2, [2SG].
In view of the slanderous reports circulated by a few individuals against Bro. and sister White, we feel called upon to testify that we have been personally acquainted with them and their course since 1844, and therefore know that any statements that would represent them as being in any wise connected with, or countenancing in any degree, those fanatical abominations into which some in Maine and elsewhere were drawn during the years 1844-1846, are wicked and malicious falsehoods. We have never known them to be in the least infected with the spirit or works of fanaticism, but on the contrary, as the untiring and unflinching opposers of the same. p. 301, Para. 1, [2SG].
H. N. SMITH, GEORGE COBB, S. B. BELDEN, LEWIS O. STOWELL, EDWARD ANDREWS, LAURA T. STOWELL, S. L. ANDREWS, LEWIS B. STOWELL, A. S. ANDREWS, MARION C. STOWELL, CYPRIAN STEVENS, SARAH H. STOWELL, ALMIRA T. STEVENS, N. N. LUNT, PAULINA R. STEVENS, S. H. LUNT, F. J. STEVENS, R. D. WATERMAN, STOCKBRIDGE HOWLAND D. W. WRIGHT, L. M. HOWLAND, THOMAS WORCHESTER, F. H. HOWLAND, LYDIA BOLTON, R. D. HOWLAND, P. A. GAMMON, M. R. ADERTON, ABRAM BARNES, S. W. FLANDERS. p. 301, Para. 2, [2SG].
_________________ PORTLAND, ME., AUG. 10, 1858. As unfavorable reports are in circulation against Eld. James White and wife, it is a pleasure to us to testify that we have been personally acquainted with them since 1844. They have had no sympathy with the no-work theory,