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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 31, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 16.

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EMILY WILCOX

By Emily Wilcox

From Sister Wilcox.

BRO. SMITH: Through the goodness and mercy of the Lord I have been spared to behold another Sabbath, and I feel an earnest desire to rightly improve it, that I may gain strength for the coming week, that I may be enabled to withstand all the fiery darts of the adversary and press my way onward, striving to get a complete victory over all my besetments, and lay aside every weight, and run the race set before us with patience, continually looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; knowing that without strength from Him we can do nothing acceptable in his sight.
I am truly thankful for the privilege of keeping the holy Sabbath, and I want to keep it in an acceptable manner.
“Thine earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love, But there’s a nobler rest above; To that our laboring souls aspire, With ardent hope and strong desire.”
Oh! I desire to be more in earnest at a throne of grace; more zealous unto all good works; more willing to deny self, and take up my cross and follow Jesus more perfectly, having all my ways tell to the honor and glory of God. Realizing more fully what Jesus has done for unworthy me; what salvation has cost; and what we must be to obtain it. Oh! when I look at self I fear and tremble; but in Jesus there is hope.
“Thou coming One, our wants relieve, In this, our evil day; To all thy tempted followers give, The power to watch and pray. Long as our fiery trials last; Long as the cross we bear; Oh! let our souls on thee be cast, In all-prevailing prayer.”

EMILY WILCOX

Hubbardsville, March, 1868.