Trusting God Through Suffering
By Sister M. B. Pierce
SISTER M. B. PIERCE writes from Andover, Vt.: I feel like striving more and more to be in earnest in the great and solemn work of getting ready to meet the blessed Jesus. Many and various have been the trials through which I have passed the last few years. Disease and suffering have been mine to share; and a number of times it has seemed to threaten to overwhelm my frail nature; but the Lord has thus far kept me from the jaws of death; but even now disease of a serious nature hangs heavily upon me, supposed to be an inward cancer, and almost constant suffering is my lot. Yet I try to trust all with the Lord, and at times my soul rejoices in the love of the blessed Lord, and I try to commit my dear family, my poor little children, and all, into the safe keeping of our kind Heavenly Father. The coming of the dear Saviour never seemed more precious than for the past few months. The little church here is striving to arise and live nearer the Lord. And although few, yet our meetings are solemn and interesting. To-day as we tried in our weakness to worship the Lord of the Sabbath, I felt as expressed by the poet: “How sweet and awful is the place,
With Christ within the doors.” Truly we felt it was thus. I am unworthy the prayers of God's dear people, but I crave them in my behalf, and I will still strive to be in a place where the Lord can work for me.