p. 16 | From an Aged Pilgrim

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 20, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 20.

From an Aged Pilgrim

WE wish it were possible for us to publish all the good letters that we receive from our subscribers and readers, from the aged ones, from those who have trodden the path with their Lord for so many years, and have found Him more and more precious; but this is impossible. Occasionally we will take one as representative of many others, and in this we condense greatly.

This sister is eighty-five years of age, has one child, four grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. Of course she lived before the stars fell, but did not know it, as her family lived in a forest at that time, in Cherry Creek, New York, fifteen or twenty miles from any others. Her name is Maria Brown, of Schuyler, Nebraska. Her father's name was Eliphalet Wilcox. She recalls the maple-sugar making in the days of her childhood. Now she does her own work, cooks for herself and son, makes butter from two cows, and does her own dressmaking. She has read the SIGNS, the Review and Herald, and other papers for thirty years, received the message under the labors of Brethren Cudney and Nettleton, feels that the Lord has been very good, and expects to share eternity with Him in the earth made new.