Untitled article by Mariam A. Addison

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, November 26, 1867

From Sister Addison.

By Mariam A. Addison

BRO. SMITH: As the opportunity is offered us in the Conference Department, of the Review, I will say a few words to the dear ones of our Heavenly Father's family, scattered over the length and breadth of the land. Although a stranger to the most of those of like precious faith, yet they all seem near and dear to me; and as I read their cheering testimonies from week to week, my heart is strengthened, and made glad, and I take fresh courage; resolved to “stand the storm,” “to fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold on eternal life.” I am looking forward with joyful anticipations to the time when I shall, if faithful a little while longer, meet all those dear ones face to face, whose names I so often see in the Review; meet them on Mount Zion, where the Lamb shall stand with his company.

It is about ten months since I embraced the Advent doctrine: five since I was slain by the law; and to-day I am a pilgrim and a sojourner here, with no sure abiding place, or continuing city, but I seek one to come. In the future I may give you a history of my experience in coming into the light of present truth, the blessed hope. Dear brethren and sisters, “Be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” MARIAM A. ADDISON. Connecticut, Nov. 17, 1867.