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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 21, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 5.

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JULIANA L. POWELL

By Juliana L. Powell

From Sr. Powell.
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: It is with feelings of deep gratitude that I endeavor to pen a few lines for the REVIEW. I have been truly led in a way I knew not. It has only been one short year since I was living isolated from any one of like faith, and oh, how lonely I was! so peculiar from others that my neighbors looked upon me with curiosity and wonder to see me keep the holy Sabbath, and no one else with me, not even my companion. But, praise the Lord! I had strength from on high, and often my prayer was for the way to open for me to meet with the chosen ones of Israel, and blessed be the Lord, I now live in this little town where there is a small company of Sabbath-keepers, who meet three times a week to pray and speak together; and those meetings are a privilege to me.
I see that those that have always had those blessings, are rather slack about being punctual at meeting. They have excuses for their absence; some work too hard, and are too tired to come, while others complain that the meetings hold too late, and have withdrawn altogether from our evening meetings. Perhaps their excuses are right, but if they had been placed as I have been for the past few years, without one to tell their hopes to but the Lord, I think those excuses would cease. Oh for a stirring up, and an effort to shake off this sleep! I do feel to pray for a deeper work in my own heart. I have been striving to see myself as others see me, but I find that it is hard to lay aside love for self and probe at my faults. I shrink from them with feelings of horror at my many imperfections, but may the dear Lord perfect his love in me. “Even though it be a cross, that raiseth me, nearer my God to thee, nearer to thee.”
I shall go to our Convocation Meeting this fall if the Lord is willing. I look forward with delight to that meeting, as Bro. and Sr. White are expected to be there, and I never have had the pleasure of seeing them.
Yours in hope of our Lord's soon coming.

JULIANA L. POWELL

Laporte City, Iowa.