Hope, Health Reform, and Perseverance
By Mary M. Andrews
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I am thankful for the privilege of being numbered among those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus. I feel that we all have the same glorious hope, the same heavenly Father, the same Mediator, and the same Holy Spirit to comfort us while on our pilgrimage to our heavenly home. Though trials and afflictions await us here, and the time of trouble is but a little way in the future, let us rely on Christ “who died for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him.” What a glorious hope is ours. May we who have this hope of soon seeing the Saviour, purify ourselves. We have great reason to be thankful for the light of present truth. I am trying to live out the Health Reform, and it has been a blessing to me. I wish to live up to the light as fast as it shines, that it may not become darkness. The Review is ever a welcome guest to me. I am glad it has been enlarged. I am striving for an inheritance in the kingdom of God. I often feel my weakness and unworthiness, but am determined, Christ strengthening me, to overcome and with the remnant go through to Mount Zion. Vain are the pleasures and enjoyments of the world. How transient and fleeting compared with the glories of the world to come. May the Lord help us, dear brethren and sisters, to live godly in Christ Jesus, and to do all that we can to advance his cause, that when the Chief Shepherd appears we may receive a crown of life. Yours, striving for the inheritance.
MARY M. ANDREWS.
New Genesee, Ill.