MRS. L. J. GEROY by Mrs. L. J. Geroy

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 1, 1868

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 11.

MRS. L. J. GEROY

By Mrs. L. J. Geroy

From Sr. Geroy.

DEAR READERS OF THE REVIEW: I have a desire to serve God, and have felt it my duty for some time to write and make known what the Lord has done for me. I was thrown upon a sick bed, and there had ample time to review my past life. I was brought near the gates of death, and that without a hope in Christ; but God in his tender mercy heard the prayers of his children in my behalf, and I was raised up again. I prayed to God to spare my life, determined that I would try to serve him with a full purpose of heart. Oh! how unworthy I am of such great blessings as have been bestowed upon me all my life long, and how little I have appreciated them. How great is the goodness of God to spare the lives of the wicked, and to give them a chance to repent of their sins. God is good, and his mercy endureth forever. I ask the prayers of commandment-keepers, that I may prove faithful unto the end.

I am trying to keep the Sabbath. I want to humble myself before God, that he may continue to show mercy unto me. I have got a great work to do. My calling is no small thing. If I live up to what I profess to believe, I have got to work continually. There is no standing still for me. I feel as though I had more to do than all the rest, because I have known the way and departed therefrom. I have wandered far from God. I have grieved the great Being who gave me life, and moreover I have sinned against, and grieved, his dear children. For all this I am sorry, and humbly ask the pardon of God, also of his children, that have known me. I feel myself too unworthy of a place among God's people. I feel myself entirely too unworthy to take God's name upon my sin-polluted lips; but what else can I do, but to try to undo what I have done wrongfully? Even if I make many mistakes, it is better to try to do right than to continue willfully in sin. I want to get more of the love of God in my heart. I need more of the spirit of prayer to keep me from temptation, and the snares of Satan. I feel it necessary that I should set a good example before the world, and my family; and this I am determined to do by the grace of God.

I love the REVIEW. I love Sabbath-keepers. They look good to me while passing by to their place of worship. I should like to be one of their number, and for this end I shall try hard to humble myself before God, until I may be accounted worthy a place among them here, and an inheritance on the new earth.

“Yet doubts still intervene, And all my comforts fly, Like Noah’s dove I flit between Rough seas and stormy skies; Anon the clouds depart, The winds and waters cease, While sweetly o’er my gladdened heart Expands the bow of peace.”

MRS. L. J. GEROY

Jaff. Co., N. Y.