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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 28, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 6.

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Pressing On in Faith

By Abbie Hamlin

From Sr. Hamlin.

BRO. SMITH: I have long felt it duty to write a few lines through the Review, and I feel as though I could delay no longer. It has been three years since I gave all for Christ and started on pilgrimage. Oh! how good the Lord has been to me; he has been my present help in every time of trouble, and I still feel of good courage to-day to press my way onward with the people of God. Oh! how much we need the grace of God in our hearts in these last days of trial. What a sweet consolation it is to feel that we have a friend in Jesus. I love to look forward to that glorious day when Jesus will come to make up his jewels, and gather the loved ones who are asleep. Oh! how cheering is the thought! we shall behold the King in his beauty. Oh, I long for that immortal life, where no one shall say, “I am sick,” and where sorrow will never press the soul. I am weary of the din and wickedness of this world; I long for the world to come, where nothing can mar our perfect peace; “For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” Rev. vii, 17.
Dear brethren and sisters, I want to be saved when Jesus comes, and I want others saved. Time is short, and there is much to be done in the vineyard of the Lord. My daily prayer is that some faithful laborer will come this way and labor for those who are traveling the broad way that leads to death. May God help me so to live that I may lead others to keep the commandments of God, and to have the faith of Jesus. I had rather suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of this world for a season, knowing that “our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”
It has been two years since I commenced to keep the Lord’s Sabbath, and truly, I love that sweet day of rest; although I meet with trials, they make the promise sweet. There is but one family in this place that keeps the Sabbath, but I believe if we live as we should, there will be others that will come out, believe, and be saved. Pray for me, dear brethren and sisters. I feel that I need your prayers. I don’t have the privilege of going to meeting very often, but I am with you, heart and hand. The REVIEW is sent to me free, and the Lord knows how thankful I am to have it. I pray the Lord will bless those who provide a way for me to have it.
I am trying to live out the health reform; it has been a great benefit to me.
“I choose the path of heavenly truth, And glory in my choice.” Not all the riches of the earth Could make me so rejoice.”
May the Lord help us to be good and humble, that we may at last, have a right to the tree of life, and enter in through the gates into the city.
Yours, striving for eternal life.
ABBIE HAMLIN.
Clinton, Me.