Pressing On in the Truth
By FANNY FREEMAN
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I still feel a determination to press onward and be an overcomer. I rejoice in the light which our kind heavenly Father has bestowed upon his people, and am trying to walk therein. I feel to praise his great name for his manifold mercies to me. It is thirteen years since these precious truths dawned upon my mind. Although I have been a lonely one most of the time, I have never felt to relinquish them for aught earth can afford. The language of my heart to-day is, “Sanctify me through the truth.” My lot is now cast with the dear church at Roosevelt. I have been permitted for the last two Sabbaths, together with my children, to hear the sweet voice of praise and prayer in their house of worship, and have felt to exclaim, “How pleasant, how divinely fair,
O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are.
With long desire my spirit faints
To meet the assemblies of thy saints.
“My flesh would rest in thine abode,
My panting heart cries out for God.
My God, my King, why should I be,
So far from all my joys and thee?”
Pray for me and mine, that we may fight the good fight of faith and at last be permitted with you to enter into eternal life.
FANNY FREEMAN.
Oswego Co., N. Y., June 17, 1867.