Preparing for the Coming Storm
By MRS. JULIET HANCHET
BRO. WHITE: Many a time I have thought I would like to communicate a few lines to those of like precious faith. I love Christ and count all his friends as my friends, and his foes as mine. I feel to rejoice that he has brought me to realize my true condition; that he has given me strength to come out from the world, claim his precious promises, and trust his power to save one as weak, frail, and wayward, as I have been. The Lord is good, I will praise him for his tender compassion toward me. Dear brethren and sisters, we know that nothing but an effectual, practical confidence in Christ can deliver us from the coming storm of Divine wrath. I want to get ready for that glorious day which will bring deliverance to all the saints. I would rather suffer affliction with the people of God, than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Surely our trials and our troubles here will only make us richer there; and how cheering the thought that Christ will never leave nor forsake us, but will be a present help in every time of need. I realize that I am weak, that there must be a great191work wrought in me to enable me to stand in the time of trouble which is just before us. I adopt the health reform and believe it to be a part of the last message, and am trying to keep pace with it. We must walk out in the light as fast as we receive it, have our lamps trimmed and burning, and be prayerfully waiting and watching, having on the wedding garment ready to go in to the marriage supper of the Lamb. Oh, what a glorious thought that we may by “patient continuance in well-doing,” have a home in Heaven, where there is “no more death, neither sorrow nor crying,” where we may bask in the sunshine of God’s unchanging love. We are but very few in number here in Albany. We hold our prayer meetings every Sabbath, which strengthens us to press forward in the work of overcoming. My prayer is that we may honorably hold up and live out the truth until it places our feet in the New Jerusalem.