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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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N. JANE LUCAS

By N. Jane Lucas

From Sr. Lucas.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: Again I avail myself of the opportunity of writing a few lines for the Conference Department. If I can speak one word of encouragement to any one, I shall be amply repaid. I would here say that I love the blessed truths of the third angel's message, and by the help of the Lord I mean to live them out. I would honor God by keeping all his holy commandments, that I may finally stand on Mount Zion with all the redeemed. The work on the sanctuary and twenty-three hundred days, of Daniel viii, 14, by the help of the Lord, has been the means of shedding new light and glory around my pathway. In hours of trial, when cares of this world weigh heavily upon me, by an eye of faith I can look away to the sanctuary, and there behold Jesus, our great High Priest, as he ministers in the most holy place in the heavenly sanctuary. Oh! what heavenly light shines around my pathway. Surely, it is from above; and in view of the solemn work that is being done in the sanctuary, how careful we should be, dear brethren and sisters, to keep the whole law of God. Oh! I feel that I have much to overcome, that I may be ready to meet the Lord. I would here confess that I have been governed too much in the past by feeling; but by the grace of God I mean to be governed in the future by wisdom and the word of God. I do not think we shall go astray if we are governed thus. A short time ago, while talking with a man who professes to be a minister of the gospel, he made the statement, that in many places in the Bible where we have a thus saith the Lord, “It does not mean so,” but he failed to tell me what it did mean. I made up my mind that henceforth I would cling closer to the word of God than ever before. I believe if there was ever a time when Satan was trying his utmost to overthrow the Bible, it is now. May the Lord keep us from the wily snares of the Wicked One, that we may finally come off conquerors, and more than conquerors, through Him that hath loved us.

N. JANE LUCAS

Maine.