Appreciating Blessings.
By Mary A. Chiute
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: It seems not only a privilege but also a duty to testify to the goodness of God in restoring the gift of prophecy to his remnant people, through which he so minutely warns us and earnestly entreats us to shun the sins of these perilous days. May we ever take delight in all the instructions of the Lord to us. I find that they afford the very reproof and instruction we as individuals and as a family need. And I wish to thank and praise the Lord for giving us eyes to see wherein they apply to us, and hearts to receive these kind reproofs, and admonitions with love and gratitude to him, and the one by whom they are given. Pray for us, that we may have grace to obey them, and be enabled to overcome our vigilant foe through the word of our testimony and the blood of the Lamb. I wish to thank Bro. Butler for his articles in the True Missionary, calling our attention to the visions, and pointing out our duty in regard to them. And feeling anxious that all may reap the good the Lord designs we should from them, I would earnestly entreat all no longer to neglect these heavenly messages.
MARY A. CHIUTE.