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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 7, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 34, No. 24.

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The Lord Is Good

By G. W. Colcord

From Bro. Colcord.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: The Lord is good; and though it has been quite a long time since I have spoken through the Conference Department of the REVIEW, yet, to day, I can say, The Lord is good to me, a poor, fallible mortal. In early childhood I was taught to remember the Lord in prayer; and at the age of ten years I was induced to openly acknowledge my Master, in a Methodist revival. From that time to the present, I have been trying, though in weakness, to serve the Lord. Twelve years ago this autumn, I listened to the stirring truths we profess to love, as they were being explained to an awakened neighborhood by Elds. Loughborough, Waggoner, Hart, and others. As I investigated the positions taken, I became more and more convinced that they had the “truth,” John xvii, 17, and I could not rest until I tried to do God’s will. I John v, 3.
As I became firmly established, theoretically, in the truth, time seemed short, yes, very short! I did not then expect to be in this mortal state in the end of the year 1869. No; verily! I looked for the Coming One in two, or at most, three years! But, to the end that we all may be prepared, and stand “waiting” at the second advent, the Lord is still our merciful High Priest, in the Sanctuary above.
Dear brethren, when I consider what advantages I have had in past life, and compare with my disposal of them, I am led to exclaim, Unprofitable servant, O Lord that I am! Instead of being strong, as I ought to be, I have to confess myself to be very weak, a mere dwarf. But the Lord is good; his mercy endureth forever; and because of this I am alive as it is this day; a living monument of God’s grace; a free moral agent; a being who may choose life or death. But, O my soul! the choice is to be for an eternity!
My earnest prayer is, that God will give me grace to so live that I may be fully prepared for the soon coming of our blessed Saviour, and, at that “decisive day,” to have my lot cast in with those whose lives “measure with the life of God.”
G. W. COLCORD. Whiteside Co., Ill.