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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 12, 1865

E. G. STEVENSON

By E. G. Stevenson

From Bro. Stevenson.

BRO. WHITE : I would be happy to say to the readers of the Review, that I love the present truth. I also love to dwell upon the glorious teachings of "James, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptation." Chap. i, 2. How comforting those words are to the little few scattered abroad ! I feel fully satisfied in my own mind that those words reach down to the present time ; for we see a few here, and a few there, trying to live up to all the requirements of God.

I feel to thank God for the evidence I have that we are his people, and to know that our lives are hid with Christ in God ; and that when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall we also appear with him in glory. How encouraging to the Christian heart ! Let us come up to the standard of truth, taking a firm hold on all the promises of God, forgetting those things which are behind, and looking forward to the soon coming of our Lord to redeem his saints.

Yours in hope of eternal life.

E. G. STEVENSON

Chicago, Ill., Nov. 20, 1865.