Untitled article by L. Johnson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jun 16, 1904

Volume VIII, No. 36

By L. Johnson

HAVING just finished reading “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. VIII, No. 36, I desire to tell all my brethren and all the readers of the REVIEW that its contents have been a great blessing to my soul. The great God Jehovah is speaking to us. I see more clearly than ever before that he does not permit anything to meet us, which, under our circumstances and our relation to him, is not for our greatest good, even if it seems otherwise. If we had been more watchful, more fully consecrated, more ready to do his bidding, and more willing to walk in all the light he has given from time to time, he would have spared us from many of the trials and difficulties we now encounter; but when we, like Israel of old, depart from him, he in his wisdom and tender love, permits such things to come as will cause us to consider our ways, to search our hearts, and to seek him for help. O what a blessed people we would be if we loved one another as he loves us!

My confidence in the Lord as the leader of his people has never been greater than at the present time. He is fully able to do what he has undertaken, and by trusting in him we shall be carried through. Let us therefore praise his holy name, and with the author of the book cry aloud “Homeward bound.” L. JOHNSON.