Untitled article by Minerva Ann Jessep

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, March 24, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 15

From Sr. Jessep.

By Minerva Ann Jessep

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: For the first time I take my pen in hand to say a few words for the encouragement of others. I have been a reader of the Review, and have been encouraged while reading the letters therein. I am young in the cause, but I want to grow more and more as God shows me by his Holy Spirit. The time is short in which to get ready to meet our blessed Saviour. Oh! such mercy as he has shown to a fallen race! How small a sacrifice we can offer. Only think of the crown of thorns on that sacred head; think of the great drops of blood he sweat in the garden; and then that shameful death of the cross; and all that he suffered for such a rebel against his holy word, as I have been.

But I want to live faithful, so that I may be one of that happy number that will inherit the earth made new. Only a few more days, or years at most, and time will be no longer; only a few more trials for God’s people, and he shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away; and God says, He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. What a precious promise! to be the sons and daughters of God.

Dear brethren and sisters, I want to meet you there. There, if faithful, we shall all meet around the throne; and there shall we meet with those we love who are now sleeping.

“As Jesus died and rose again Victorious from the dead, So his disciples rise and reign With their triumphant head.”

I want to dwell in that happy land with our blessed Saviour.

MINERVA ANN JESSEP.

Grant Co., Wis., March, 1868.