Longing to Gather With the Saints
Do all sufficiently appreciate the blessing of health, the privilege of attending the assemblies of the children of God, and the use of all their powers of body and mind? A person deprived of them, feels their loss, and longs for their return. Let all make a faithful use of them while they have them. Bro. W. H. RILEY of Hamilton Co., Iowa, after a long affliction with typhoid fever, during which he was unconscious for sixty days, with returning health writes: “How I long to hear again the voice of prayer and exhortation from the dear brethren, and to listen once more to the preaching of the word. I feel to say, Courage in the Lord. Let us follow his word and the counsel of his Spirit, which is given in this last time for the preparation of a people for translation. I mean so to live that I can with you enter the holy city, and pluck and eat of the immortal fruit of the tree of life,”