The things necessary to be complied with on our part are, 1st,
that we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, the fruits of a correct faith being
obedience: 2nd, that we repent of and forsake our sins: 3rd,
that we be baptized, that is buried in the water by someone having authority
from GOd for the remission of our sins, and 4th, receive the laying
on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost. See Luke 24, 47; Acts 2, 38; John 3,
5; Mark 16, 16, 20; see also Acts 8, 17 to 19, 6; Hebrews 6, 2; Gal 1, 8. And I
now, to close these few lines, bear my testimony to all into whose hands this
may come, that God the Eternal Father has set to his hand for the last time to
prune the earth, and that He has revealed a message of His will to man, even to
the fulness of the everlasting Gospel, by the administration of an Holy Angel;
which gospel is for a witness upon all people, that the end, or the hour of God’s
judgment is at hand. See Rev., 14 Chapter, 7 verse. And all men, without one exception,
are called upon to repent of all their former transgressions and dead forms,
and obey the Gospel, and flee out from the midst of the wicked, as the Prophet
has said, “Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and
that ye receive not of her plagues.” (William Hyde, Letter to Augustus Farnham,
January 29, 1854, repr. The Private Journal of William Hyde, ed. Liam H.
Mack [2025], 74)
