Untitled article by N. J. LUCAS

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, October 22, 1867

From Sister Lucas.

By N. J. LUCAS

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS. Through the mercy of God I am once more permitted to write a few thoughts for the Review. Although a stranger to most of its readers, I feel that I am not a stranger to the religion of Jesus. Oh! how I love this pure religion. I praise God for what he has done for me and is still doing. Bless his dear name. He has shown me the light on the fourth commandment so that I love to keep his holy Sabbath, yea, it has become a delight, and with Paul I can say, “The law is holy and the commandment holy, and just and good.” Rom. vii, 12.

I want to know the way of the Lord more perfectly and be cleansed from every thing that is unlike my blessed Master, hence by the help of the Lord I mean to know what he requires of me, and then cheerfully obey. I not only want to profess faith in Jesus but I want to live it daily and hourly, that it may tell to the world that I believe down deep in my heart what I profess. O, dear brethren and sisters, let us strive to live out what we profess and then we shall have a living, unshaken faith in Jesus, a faith that will grow brighter the more it is tried.

“Lord, give me such a faith as this, And then whate’er may come, I’ll taste e’en here the hallowed bliss Of an eternal home.”

Oh how blessed it is that in hours of trial, adversity and affliction, we can look away to Jesus and find light and glory, knowing that his promises are sure; and that help has been laid upon one that is mighty to save. Let us strive to be overcomers, that in the great gathering day we may be saved in the kingdom. Then I expect to meet with near and dear ones to part no more. Praise the Lord, O my soul.

N. J. LUCAS.

Hartford, Maine.