Preparing for the Latter Rain
By Lydia Bolton
BRO. WHITE: I love the blessed truths and good instructions and faithful counsel and comfort which come to us from week to week. It is cheering to our hearts. We are living in a solemn time, and in a very wicked and perverse generation, when iniquity abounds, and the love of many waxes cold, and as the prophet has said pride has budded and truth has fallen in the streets. I feel very unworthy; but I mean to strive with all my heart to heed the counsel of the faithful and true Witness, and seek meekness and righteousness, and it may be I shall be hid in the day of God's fierce anger, when he arises to shake terribly the earth. I want to be wholly engaged in the great work of preparation that is going on that will bring out the people of God, prepared for the latter rain, and the coming of Jesus, and the setting up of his everlasting kingdom, which will be given to the saints of the Most High, and established under the whole heaven. The season of fasting was blessed to us while we tried to get nearer to God by humiliation, fasting and prayer, and confessing our sins. We felt the blessing and approbation of God resting upon us. We feel to praise God for his great goodness toward us, and that he has heard the prayers of his people in behalf of his afflicted servants. The hand of the Lord is set to the work. And they will be made whole, and come through the trials, ere long, purified, ready for the Master's use. Yours, in hope of eternal life. LYDIA BOLTON.