A Desire to Serve Christ
By Sr. Underhill
SR. UNDERHILL writes from St. Louis, Gratiot Co., Mich.: I feel that I am making some progress in divine life. I love the Lord and love his people, and it is my greatest desire to do some little good. I want to improve every moment. I wish to be a worker, not an idler, in my Master's vineyard. I know the Saviour is soon coming. That awful day draws near. Am I ready? are you ready? do we think of these things as we should? I fear some of us are making but little headway. There will be a time when we will bitterly grieve over our past negligence in the service of our Redeemer. Oh, this ungrateful heart! so devoid of feeling when his love for us is so great. I am not able to express my love for the Lord, for what he has done for me, but in the language of the poet I would say: “Had I ten thousand thousand tongues,
Not one should silent be;
Had I ten thousand thousand hearts,
I’d give them all to Thee.”
I would ask an interest in the prayers of the commandment-keepers, that I may live in a becoming way so that those of like faith will never have occasion to blush at my misconduct, or grieve over my fall.