Hear What the Lord Has Done!
By D. T. Bourdeau
DEAR BRO. WHITE: Our season of prayer and fasting has just closed, and I wish to say through the Review that the Lord has heard prayer in my behalf, and has healed me. Praise his holy name. He is the living and true God. The Lord was with us during the season appointed for fasting and prayer, and I believed that he would work for his people and deliver his afflicted servants. But I felt there remained another step for me to take to realize the promised blessing, and called for the elders of the church to pray for me according to the injunction in James v, 14–16. My brain was relieved from the pressure that had been upon it for years, causing me suffering that only God and those who have been in a similar condition can know. The disease in my throat was checked and I experienced what I had been a stranger to for years; viz.; perfect calmness and clearness of mind, and freedom from that gloominess and those awful trials which usually attend cautious, conscientious, exhausted and congested minds. But above all I felt that God for Christ's sake had forgiven my sins, and gratitude filled my soul. I think I can say without exaggeration, that yesterday (Sabbath) was the happiest day of my life. It was a good day to the church of Enosburgh as well as to myself. Never had I seen this church enjoy so much of the blessing of the Lord. But those enjoyed the most who had made a thorough effort to draw near the Lord by observing the season of prayer and fasting and confessing their sins. We realized that the Lord was ready to verify his promise to those who heed the message to the Laodiceans. But while we should be grateful for past blessings, let us remember that the work is as it were but just begun, and that greater trials and victories await us. God has done for me what I or no one else could do. While I have endeavored to live healthfully, and expressed my conviction that I should soon be in a condition to labor, I have believed that my own efforts were not sufficient to restore me and that the Lord would have to interpose; and now that he has undertaken for me, I would not overlook those laws the violation of which, has brought so heavy a penalty upon me. Pray for me that I may be strengthened in keeping them.