p. 75 | Untitled article by Sarah A. H. Lindsey

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, January 14, 1868

From Sister Lindsey.

By Sarah A. H. Lindsey

DEAR BRN. AND SISTERS: The prophet foresaw a time when they that feared the Lord spake often one to another. I firmly believe we have reached that time, and I want to be numbered with the people who fulfill this prophecy. I will therefore speak, first, of what the Lord has done for me. The past two years of my experience have been spent in self-examination, self-abasement, much doubting, many fears, almost despair amounting to semi-infidelity; then, after a long conflict, and after having been driven by anxious care to a throne of heavenly grace, all my doubts, fears, despondency, and infidelity vanished, and were lost in the light of my Redeemer's smiles. Bless his name! But a sense of my unworthiness remains. Why Jesus loves me, I cannot tell. I only know that he does love me.

I will also speak of what the Lord has done for us as a people here in Ulysses. Some time ago we met and disbanded. Brethren had sold their farms and moved away, until but one family retained their home near where our meetings had formerly been held. That family was ours, and we were determined to leave here, and locate where we could enjoy church privileges, but, as Bro. C. G. Daniels says concerning himself, our prospects in that direction always failed, and our way was mysteriously hedged up. But we begin to see why. The Lord would preserve his name, even here among the Allegany Mountains. Brethren from other places have come here and located, and our meetings are excellent. Bro. Fuller met with us last Sabbath, and aided us in re-organizing, which he has probably reported before now. Our prospects are brightening. Praise the Lord!

SARAH A. H. LINDSEY. Ulysses, Potter Co., Pa., Dec. 26, 1867.