R. C. HIGHT by R. C. Hight

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 31, 1870

R. C. HIGHT

By R. C. Hight

From Sister Hight.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: Six years ago this spring, we heard the third angel's message from Bro. Cornell. Since that time, I have been trying to keep all the commandments, without ever having one doubt but that this is the way; and I can say to-day, "Oh! how love I Thy law!" As I have been trying to follow the light which has been increasing, and to keep pace with the people of God, I find it requires decision, self-denial, and bearing the cross. I feel thankful that it is my privilege to bear reproach and to suffer for the truth's sake, and with what ardor and zeal should we, who have come into the truth at this late hour, labor, lest we have not time to get ready for the Judgment. While those who lead in this work, toil and suffer, why should we complain of the hardness of the way? Such, probably, will never go through. With such the Lord is not well pleased. Where is the enduring hardness like a good soldier? What are the fruits? What is the example? Oh! brethren and sisters of Maine, we need to come up to the help of the Lord, lest he get weary of us and forsake us. Let us arouse. Let us labor to enter into the rest that remains. Shall the love of the world, the cares of life, and the deceitfulness of riches, kill out all the words of life in the heart and so we lose the eternal inheritance?

While I've been writing I could say, Bless the Lord, O my soul, for all his goodness to me. I have been sick, but the Lord has raised me up; and while one said the other day I should die an infidel, because of my believing such "strange things," I expect instead to live till the Lord comes. But whether I live or die, I hope I may be the Lord's; and while I think I stand, I would take heed, lest I fall.

R. C. HIGHT

Somerset Co., Me.