SUSAN ELMER by Susan Elmer

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 18, 1870

SUSAN ELMER

By Susan Elmer

From Sr. Elmer.

Dear Brethren and Sisters: I would say that I am still striving to press forward in the glorious cause of my Master. I feel lonely and somewhat tried, but am trying to trust all in the hands of Him who careth for his children. I know the promise of God is sure, and oh, how sweet to confide in him. How the glorious hope has sustained his people in all ages, whether in dungeons, or consigned to the flames; among lions, or banished far away where no sound of human voice could reach them; and although they died, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, they reached forward and claimed them as theirs. How different with us: just before us is the promised inheritance; but a step, as it were, and we are beyond the persecutions and the trials, in short, everything that can annoy us here. How sweet to the weary pilgrim is the word home, and how consoling the thought that we so soon will meet our loved ones who now sleep in Jesus. Here we may leave home, take long journeys, animated with the thought of seeing our friends, yet life is uncertain, and ere we arrive at our journey's end, they may have passed away. But how different is the heavenly prospect; we are not going away from home to meet our friends, but to our own, dear home. Dear brethren and sisters, this is a home well worth striving for. Then let us be encouraged to persevere a few more days, trusting wholly in God, keeping our eyes fixed upon the prize; and may we have zeal in proportion to what we are seeking. Let us strive to be more and more like Jesus, and thus be prepared for whatever may befall us here, and finally meet all our Father's family in Heaven.