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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 15

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From Bro Holley.

By S. M. HOLLEY

DEAR BRO. SMITH: I have so often been encouraged by the cheering testimonies in the Review, I thought I would add my mite. I am just recovering from the lung fever. We had a good physician, but with all his skill and the aid of kind brethren and companion, they could but give temporary relief. At last I felt that I could endure but a little while longer. They tried to persuade me that I would get well. I told them there was no earthly power could save me; then they wished to know if they should not send for the elders. I said yes; my only hope is in God. They dispatched a messenger immediately, and my companion and self began to confess our faults and plead with God to forgive my sins, and resolved that if our lives were spared we would consecrate ourselves anew to his service. While in this mood the pain all left me, and has not returned; bless the Lord. My good brethren soon came and found me perfectly easy, praising God. It is one week to-day since I was healed, yet my strength is steadily increasing, for which I feel to thank God. Dear brethren, I am very thankful to my kind heavenly father for sparing my unprofitable life, and giving me health once more to serve him. I am determined to consecrate myself anew to his service. I never felt the shortness of time as at present. I feel very thankful to my kind brethren for their kindness to me in my sickness. May God bless them. I think I never saw my brethren and sisters striving so hard to overcome as at present; there is not one but seems to be striving to get nearer the Lord. May God help them. I have been cheered greatly of late in reading the testimonies of good brethren and sisters. Oh! may God bless the editor and assistants of this good paper. May the Lord bless Bro. and Sr. White, and raise them to health and strength again. I have often been encouraged in reading the testimony of Bro. and Sr. W. I have always been a firm believer in the testimonies, and I pray they may have a sanctifying influence on my life, and on all who read them.
Yours striving to overcome.
S. M. HOLLEY.
Whiteside Co., Ill.