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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 25, 1868

L. B. KENDALL

By L. B. KENDALL

From Sr. Kendall.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I will say a few words through the REVIEW, to let you know that you are still dear to my heart. Though separated far from some of you, yet the tie that binds our hearts together is not severed. How many times I think of those that I so often met with in the East on the Sabbath. How glad I would be to again meet with you in the worship of God. Let us not be discouraged nor faint by the way. The Lord will take care of us. The road may be rough, but it cannot be long.

I have been passing through the furnace of affliction for some years; but my trust in the care of my kind Heavenly Father has not diminished. I think I can say to-day that I never felt such an abiding trust in him as at the present time. The Lord has been very good to me. When I have come down to the very gates of death where no earthly arm could deliver or save in any degree, the Lord has reached down his strong arm and rebuked disease, and I have rejoiced in a comfortable degree of health. He has many times sent his servants that could lay hold of his precious promises, and I have come up by the prayer of faith, for which I feel thankful this morning. And he will save his poor afflicted people that walk humbly before him; he will make a way for them where there is no way. Oh! how good he has been to such a poor, unworthy creature as I am, in sparing my unprofitable life till the present time. I am thankful for the sympathy and prayers of the dear saints. Even their dwellings look good and light here amid the darkness of this world. They are bright spots in the desert of life where the angels of God descend to minister to their wants. I never shall forget how dear they seemed to me while journeying to the West, weary with toil, and a stranger in a strange land. Oh! how the hearty welcome cheered and refreshed both body and mind. Thanks to the dear ones we met on our way. They are remembered with kindness. May you find as hearty a welcome to the promised land. The Lord does not forget even a cup of cold water to one of his little ones.

I would say I am very thankful for the health and dress reform. It looks like the work of a kind Heavenly Father; and oh! that we may be able to live up to the light as it shines on our pathway.

L. B. KENDALL

Minnesota.