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AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 3, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 19.

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AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

By D. T. Bourdeau

Since the General Conference, and especially of late, I have felt the need of a greater consecration to the Lord, and to the work in which I am engaged. As I look over my past life, I lament over the fact that, considering my privileges and calling, I have made very slow and poor advances in the divine life. And I am not without an influence. My lacks must have been felt by others, through my writings, and my private and public labors. I must die a greater, a complete, death to self, pride, and love of approbation. Time is short, mercy will soon close, and I must be thorough, and work fast.
As I examine myself in the light of God's testimony to me, I also see that in my anxiety to do my duty with reference to my health, I have not given the Lord a chance to work. I have leaned too much to my own strength and understanding, and this is one great reason why I have had a hard time, and have made such slow progress in the direction of health. But I am thankful that my duty in regard to my health is marked out in a clear manner, and that help comes in time to save me, if I reform. God grant that I may.
Wherein my lacks have been a source of grief to others, and have been an obstruction to the advancement of the cause, I wish to be forgiven. Pray for me, that I may make thorough work for the Judgment, and succeed in winning souls to the truth.
D. T. BOURDEAU.
Petaluma, Cal., Oct. 12, 1868.