AN ITEM OF EXPERIENCE by L. B. Kendall

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 10, 1867

AN ITEM OF EXPERIENCE.

By L. B. Kendall

I love to look back in my past experience to the time when I was brought to exclaim, “Here Lord I give myself away, ’tis all that I can do.” At the same moment I felt my burden of sin rolled off, and was filled with joy unutterable. Oh! that I never had grieved my Saviour since.

But I wanted to tell my brethren and sisters, how much comfort I used to take in secret prayer. My sister, and another girl nearly of my age, experienced religion about that time, and our greatest delight was in praying, sometimes together and sometimes alone. How many times the Lord blessed in those sweet bowers among the green hills of Vermont; and no places on earth seem more dear to me now, than those places of secret prayer consecrated by the presence of the blessed Saviour. And I would say to all the young, Seek the Lord often in secret prayer, and he will keep you safely through the perils of these last days, and gather you into his blessed kingdom.

Oh! how I long to be there, as the sorrows and afflictions of life gather and press around me. I often exclaim, > “A few more storms may beat, > On this wild, rocky shore; > And we shall be where tempests cease, > And surges swell no more.”

I will try to meet you in that better land.

L. B. KENDALL.

Olmstead Co., Minnesota.