Building on the True Foundation
By C. WEBSTER
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS. Your cheering testimonies encourage me to add mine to those already given in favor of present truth. I feel that this Heaven-sent truth of the third angel's message is a soul-sustaining truth in this dark world. I feel to thank my Heavenly Father that amid the gloom that surrounds us, we have the illuminating rays of true gospel light as we are hastening on. The perils of the last days will soon close in around us. Are we prepared for that time? Shall we stand firmly planted upon the true foundation? Are we building of gold, and silver, and precious stones? If so our work shall remain, and we shall receive our promised reward. I often ask myself the question, What am I doing? Is my work such as is approved of my Heavenly Father? Oh! how often, as I review the past, tears fill my eyes as I think of what poor material I have been building. Oh! for heavenly wisdom to enable me to order all my ways. Let us strive manfully to win the race. Eternal life is before us; then let us run with patience. Think what eternal life has cost. Is it not worth all our best endeavors to win eternal joys, eternal bliss? The once-bleeding, but now glorified, Saviour has left us encouraging promises, and his pure example. He followed none of earth's vain fashions. He was a Man of Sorrows, and acquainted with grief. How meekly he bore the railings of his persecutors, and then the shameful death of the cross. And now he cares for us still. He has us always in remembrance, and lends a listening ear to our petitions, no matter how feeble they may be. Having gone before us, being tempted in all points like as we are, he knows how to succor those that are tempted. The lonely ones he never forgets; earth's suffering ones he soothes. He has declared himself the way, the truth, and the life; and because he lives we may live also. C. WEBSTER.
Gratiot Co., Mich.