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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 30, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 23.

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SARAH GORTON

By Sarah Gorton

From Sr. Gorton.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I believe that in answer to prayer, my Heavenly Father has enabled me to see myself as he sees me. And oh! with anguish of heart, I find that this stubborn will of mine is not yet fully brought into subjection to the will of God. Feeling almost like giving up in despair, I exclaimed, Can I ever overcome all my sins? Realizing my unfaithfulness I scarcely dared to hope in the mercies of my Saviour.
In this state of mind I went to our Minnesota Camp-meeting. While listening to the testimonies of those dear, faithful servants of God, and seeing their care-worn faces, I could in some degree realize the sacrifice they were making, that they might lead poor sinners to Jesus. Counting not their own lives dear to them, but forsaking all for Christ’s sake, they have traveled from State to State, and suffered and toiled to save those for whom our dear Saviour died. God grant that their crowns may be starry ones in the kingdom of his dear Son.
What half-hearted religion is mine, if content to say, They are doing well, let them toil on for their Master, while I look idly on, or place, from week to week, a few cents or dimes in the S. B. fund, or send a few dollars now and then for books or papers to selfishly send to some dear friend, and appease conscience by saying, I have done all with my one poor talent I can do. Oh, my soul cries out for shame! I will not mock my Maker thus, but will arise and go to my Father and tell him I am not worthy to be called his child, so often have I sinned against him. If he will only make me one of his servants I will consecrate my life to his service, and I will try to keep so near his side that I may daily know his will concerning me, and then by his grace assisting me, I will cheerfully obey. Yes; now my God is reconciled; his pardoning voice I seem to hear. If I am faithful, he will grant me a crown of life. Praise be to his dear name.

SARAH GORTON

Greenwood Prairie, Minn.