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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Dec 29, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 52.

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Wants to Keep the Collar On

By N. Z. T.

We take the following paragraph from a personal letter from Brother V. O. Cole, written while recovering from his recent severe illness. We thank God for the spirit of consecration and faithfulness which this paragraph reveals:—
“I arrived home from the Florida Sanitarium one week ago to-day. I am gradually recovering from my hard attack of autointoxication, as the doctor calls it. At one time it was a question whether I would live through it or not; but the Lord is good, and here I am at home, attending to my correspondence once more. During my sickest moments, when about half delirious, the happiest thought that came to me was that I fell in the harness. This blessed truth has done so much for me that no greater punishment could come to me than to be told that I could have no more part in its proclamation. There may come a time when I can not do so much as I have done; but, as I have heard Elder J. N. Loughborough say, ‘I want to be permitted to keep the collar on, anyway.’ I have been connected with the canvassing work without a single break for about fifteen years; so you can easily understand that it has become a large part of my very life.”
N. Z. T.