p. 139 | Untitled article by L. E. SUTLIFF

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 13, 1867

From Sister Sutliff.

By L. E. SUTLIFF

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: For the first time I pen a few lines for the Review. I have kept the Sabbath for more than two years. The Review is about all the preaching we have. Each week it is welcomed in our family circle. It affords us much comfort and consolation, as we are deprived of the privilege of meeting with a church where we can hear present truth preached. There are a few of us that meet every Sabbath and have a season of prayer and comfort one another from week to week. I believe the Lord will give us grace to live above this world, if we will but lay hold of his promises and draw near to him by prayer daily, having faith in God.

At times I feel that I come so far short of living out present truth, that it will be said, “Depart from me, I never knew you.” I feel this morning that by the grace of God I will rise above such fears and do the best I can.

There is but little in this world that binds me to it. I feel and realize that the Christian life is a continual warfare. That we are strangers in a strange land.

I try to live the Health Reform, I believe it is what we all need to make us healthful. I have been particularly blessed in trying to live out the Reform. My health is much better this summer than formerly. I have hardly known what it is to have the headache.

May the Lord help us to be faithful, that his word may abide in us and we in him, that we may ask at his hand and receive liberally as our circumstances require.

I trust that we, the lonely ones, have your prayers at the throne of grace that, though unworthy we may come off conquerors, yea more than conquerors through him that hath died to redeem us from our sins.

Your sister, striving for the victory through the blood of the Lamb.

L. E. SUTLIFF.

Dodge Co., Minnesota, July 16, 1867.