Living Out the Faith by S. Duval

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 5, 1868

Living Out the Faith

By S. Duval

Bro. S. Duval writes from Connecticut: Bro. Rodman has been with us. He found us torn, scattered, buffeted by unbelief; but he preached the word in its purity, and a few of us have fallen in love with it. We have made up our minds to have the law of God written in our hearts. We mean to keep the faith of Jesus, and try to live meek, holy, and blameless lives. We mean to be among the hundred and forty and four thousand when they stand on Mount Zion, and, of course, we must be with them now, and be willing to share with them in their sorrows, their griefs, and afflictions, yes, and, if need be, to lay down our lives for them. I look forward to that glorious day, in which the poor, despised, poverty-stricken pilgrim-stranger shall together with the glorious army of martyrs and saints of every age and clime stand on the Mount Zion, and gaze, with eyes immortal, on Him who, for their sakes, was despised and poor, rejected of men, having not where to lay His head. I long to obtain a look at that head that wore the thorns for me. What a privilege, to look on Him whose death caused the sun to hide his face in midnight gloom; on Him who burst the bands of death; on the Son of God. How blessed will it be, if we can hear him say, Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. We mean, by the help of the Lord, to live out our faith. We will strive to hold up the banner of Jesus by a godly life and conversation.