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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 9, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 18.

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M. BEAN

By M. BEAN.

From Sister Bean.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS of like precious faith, I feel very small and unworthy, yet I do praise the Lord for the way he is leading his people, and for the light that shines on their pathway. I am now in Johnson, stopping awhile with dear Bro. and sister Loveland, who have so recently been called to drink the bitter cup of bereavement the fourth time. But it is all working for good. The Lord sweetens it all by his peaceful presence and thus sustains and supports them. Only one dear son left, and a grand daughter, and they have recently given their hearts to God. At morn and eve we hear these two children call on the Lord and thank him for his goodness to them. I wish that all the parents of the remnant church could have such a good hope of being an unbroken family in the kingdom as have Bro. and sister Loveland. I see them and they with me are earnestly striving to overcome. The Lord hears us pray and blesses us together. I feel it a privilege and a blessing to stop awhile with this family for the ark of the Lord rests here.
I believe God is bringing up his people; yes, and he is sifting Israel. He will have a pure people, zealous of good works. It seems the latter rain will soon be poured out on his church. Then no spot on her countenance in that glorious day! Once more I would say, I thank the Lord for the Health Reform. Although 73 years old, it is doing me good. Four years I have been troubled with asthma and catarrh and heart disease; now I am much better of all these complaints. It is a pleasure to live a life of self denial because I see and feel God is calling us so to do. “The Lord is a sun and a shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; and no good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly.” “But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity; but peace shall be upon Israel.”
Yours expecting to overcome.

M. BEAN

Johnson, Vt.