BRO. T. F. EVANS Writes from Mercer Co., Ohio:
By T. F. Evans
For the first time, I essay to write a few lines, thinking there may be some situated like myself in unfavorable circumstances for advancement in spiritual growth, who may be encouraged as I have been by hearing from others who are struggling alone in the great battle for eternal life and for a home in the everlasting kingdom. Let us faithfully discharge our duties to God and our fellows, and though we be surrounded by the allurements of the world which are calculated to wean us from the love of heavenly things; and though we may have no earthly friend to whom we can unburden our hearts, and from whom we may receive sympathy, yet we have in Jesus a friend that sticketh closer than a brother, to whom we may go for assistance. He is ever willing to hear us; and if we come in the simplicity of childlike faith he is as ready to raise us above the trials of this world, as he was to lift Peter above the waves when he stretched forth his arms to him for help. And he that is for us is more than they that be against us. Only let us draw nigh unto him.