Untitled article by AURELIA L. COWDREY

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · February 11, 1868

From Sister Cowdrey.

By AURELIA L. COWDREY

DEAR BRN. AND SISTERS: I have felt for some time a disposition to speak to you through the Review. I do not have the privilege of either social or public meeting; but as I read your soul-stirring testimonies from week to week, my heart is warmed and cheered, and I feel strengthened to urge my lonely way onward through this wilderness world to that better land, “long, long ago” promised to the Israel of God. I feel to praise God to-day for his unspeakable goodness and mercy to me, in opening my eyes to see the light of truth, and giving me a heart to receive it.

My faith is firm and unshaken in the cause which I love. My whole soul responds to every advance move in the truth. The health reform has been an angel of mercy to me, and all the sacrifices we are called upon to make are only for our good. Let us then go fearlessly on. What if we are looked upon as fanatical? What if scoffers do scoff and deride us? When a duty is made plain to us, through the gift of prophecy, shall we stop to enquire what the world will say of us? God forbid!

I beg you will pray for unworthy me that I may have grace and wisdom to direct me in my ways, that I bring no reproach upon the cause I love so well, but that I may stand firmly and nobly for the truth, and at last share with you in the final triumph of the saints.

To the ministers, I would desire to tender my sincerest thanks for the sermons provided for the paper from week to week, and also say that I look with anxious eye each week, the first thing, as I open my paper, to see if there is not some appointment for preaching near enough for me to attend. I had fondly hoped that Bro. and Sr. White would pass through Connecticut and so hold a meeting on their way from their New England tour; but I was doomed to be disappointed. I hope to be resigned to my lot, and have grace to stand in just the place the Lord would have me.

AURELIA L. COWDREY.

Litchfield Co., Ct.