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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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S. J. HOUGHTALING

By S. J. Houghtaling

From Sr. Houghtaling.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: My heart has often been made glad while reading your testimonies through the REVIEW, and I have often thought I would like to say a few words in favor of this glorious present truth. I feel to thank the Lord each day for his goodness in sending the last note of warning this way. When it came to this place, it found me wandering far away from God, without the least hope of anything beyond this life; but I would say for one, I would not take all the world affords for the hope I now have. I have much to overcome, but I know that God's grace is sufficient for me if I am faithful.
Often, when I have been thinking of the glorious reward that is laid up for the faithful people of God, I have been led to ask myself, Can it be that such a poor, sinful mortal as I have been may be an inheritor of eternal life. The thought of this world coming to an end and the Lord's coming, was once a dreadful thing for me to think of, but now I love to think it is near at hand. All the fear that I now have is that I will not be ready. But my daily prayer is that I and my house will be in order when the Lord shall make his appearance on the white cloud. Oh, what a condition this world is in! It makes my heart sad when I think of the terrible wrath that is soon to be poured out upon a guilty world. Pray for me and mine that we may escape these things, and be crowned with eternal life when the Lord comes.
Yours striving for victory.

S. J. HOUGHTALING

Saginaw Co., Mich.