How I Prize my Review by Lucy H. Winslow

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 20, 1869

How I Prize my Review.

By Lucy H. Winslow

MY DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I have taken the precious paper for ten years; have ever prized it next to my Bible. I have never had one leaf torn or destroyed since that time, but I have only two numbers in my house now. When I write to my friends, I always talk the present truth to them, and send them a paper. Some have gone to Florida, some to Maine, some to Massachusetts, some to Oregon, and the rest of them are scattered here and there.

I am yet one of the lonely ones striving to keep all the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus. I love him as a Father. In vain will it be to profess to love him if we do not keep his commandments. Since I commenced to keep the Sabbath of the Lord, my path has been strewn with losses, disappointment, and trouble of many kinds, but God is good. I think I have needed all of these things to wean my affections from this world. I want to be led by God's own hand to a home in Heaven. Dear brethren and sisters, let us press on. The battle will soon be over. Oh! let us ever be found at the feet of our Saviour, holding communion with him in secret prayer, that we may be ready to go away to the mansions he has gone to prepare.

“Then I would clasp his hand in mine, And never murmur nor repine; Content whatever lot I see, Since ’tis my God that leadeth me.”

LUCY H. WINSLOW. Boone Co., Iowa.