Letter from Frederick Merryweather, 6 August 1872
Sacramento
Dear Br Woodruff
By the request of Br Garlick,
I write to let you know how we are doing
in Sacramento. Br Lowba came here last
fall and organized a branch of the Church,
since then we have held meetings every
Sunday, and have had a good degree of
the Holy Spirit, in its light, and Intelligence.
The old saints who are here mostly belong to
the young Josephites, and do not come to
our meetings. If any of the Elders should
be coming this way Br Garlick would
like them to call on him, he lives on Second
street between N and O streets, we have had
one letter from Br Lowba from New York,
he could not find any saints there. It seems
to me that the Old saints have got into a
state of darkness in regard to the old Church,
and their minds are no longer enlightened
by the spirit of Truth, and having lost that,
they are liable to be deceived by anything
that comes along, here we find some of them
Spiritualists, some Second Adventists, some
Josephits, but in themselves seem to have no
true foundation, so that when Christ comes
they will be found among the foolish virgins
with their lamps gone out, and no oil or
light of the Holy Spirit to replenish them. [Matthew 25:1-13]
