A Request for Prayer by J. B. Webster

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 1, 1870

A Request for Prayer

By J. B. Webster

BRO. J. B. WEBSTER writes from Washington Co., Iowa: Dear brethren and sisters, to you I feel constrained to appeal for help in my lonely and destitute situation. It is not for worldly goods that I am in want. With the blessing of a kind Providence, my industry supplies me with all the necessaries of this life. My request is that you help me with your prayers at a throne of grace.

I became a believer in the Advent doctrine in about forty-two, and for about eight years I have been trying to keep the Sabbath; but, situated as I am, without one friend of like faith to counsel with, or look to for help, I find myself often cast down and discouraged. Still I do not feel like giving up. I see a greater necessity of overcoming now, as we approach the end. I also feel that I have many faults and besetments that I must get rid of ere I can join the conqueror's song. Hence my request for your prayers.