W. PENNIMAN by W. Penniman

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 7, 1868

W. PENNIMAN

By W. Penniman

From Bro. Penniman.

BRO. SMITH: The Conference Department of the paper is a part which I prize very highly, as it affords an opportunity of hearing from those I can not see. I thank the Lord for the opportunities he is giving his people for spiritual growth. I love the truth more and more, and want to be sanctified by it, and can truly say, The word of the Lord is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. When I examine myself by that pure word, I can only exclaim as did one of old, “My leanness! my leanness!”

I would like to say to the scattered flock, and especially to those who stand alone like ourselves, that if we would grow in grace, it must be a daily work, and we must use all the means God has placed within our reach for spiritual advancement. Christ teaches us to pray, Give us this day our daily bread. We must have the bread of life every day, or we shall die spiritually. The man who would try to get along with only one prayer a week, would be just as inconsistent, and just as sure to die, as the man who would think to subsist on one meal per week. We should not simply read thoughtlessly, but should search the Scriptures daily; and the more we read the Gifts and the Testimonies to the Church (if we read them prayerfully, and in the right spirit), the more our spiritual strength will be increased. Why should we not esteem, and profit by what God is revealing to his servants now, just as much as we do by what he revealed in ancient times?

W. PENNIMAN

Macoupin Co., Ill.