Growing Love for Present Truth
By H. F. Phelps
Bro. H. F. PHELPS writes from Pine Island, Minn.: It has been a long time since I wrote for the REVIEW. This is not because my love for present truth has in any measure abated. But a press of other duties, and excessive labor have almost unfitted me for any such duty. But yet I can say, that in the midst of my labors my love for the cause of God, and his people, has been increasing and my desire to do all to the glory of God, and be in a position where I can do more for the cause of God, has been growing stronger and stronger. I love the blessed truths of God's word. I love present truth. I think I can say, it is my meat and drink day by day. I have been made to rejoice in the moves that have been made of late for the cause of God, the California Mission, the Benevolent Association, the change in the Health Reformer, I am in favor of them all, and I only grieve that I cannot do more than I do. But yet I rejoice that life is made up of littles. It is the odds and ends that make up life. So I press on, trying to do well what little I do. The REVIEW comes laden with precious food, and after reading them I scatter them on every road I travel, willing to await the decisive day to know the result. As to the health reform, I think we are making some advancement in this direction, and as we advance we find a wonderful change in our tastes, so that those things that were once very pleasant to the taste, and afforded delight, are now quite the opposite. Thus in our warfare with our appetites, we are gaining the victory.