Faithfulness Amid Trials
By Helen A. Olmsted
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: For the first time I take my pen to address a few lines to you through the Review. A little more than two years have passed since I embraced the truth, and I can say to-day that I am glad that I ever was led to come out from the world and embrace it. There is only one family in Clinton besides myself, who keep the Sabbath, and they live two miles from me. We often meet, as I frequently go to spend the Sabbath with them. The nearest church is twelve miles, at Johnstown. I go there quite often to meeting. Though I am so situated this summer, teaching school, that I meet a great deal of opposition, still, by the grace of God assisting me, I am trying to be faithful. 'Tis true very many times the way has looked very hard and rough, and my feet have been very weary; yet I think of the One who trod the rugged path before me, the meek and lowly Jesus, and then I try to tread patiently and trustingly the path marked out for me. It is only a little while before Jesus will come; and if we are only faithful we shall be well rewarded for all our trials and disappointments here. Pray for me that I may ever be faithful, and at last have a right to the tree of life, and enter in through the gates into the city. HELEN A. OLMSTED.
Clinton, Wis.