A Letter by Mrs. F. Malster

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 7, 1902

A Letter

By Mrs. F. Malster

DEAR SISTERS: Are we not often more ready to pray for deliverance from trying circumstances than we are to ask grace and strength to turn these circumstances to the best account? We have need to pray that in the bonds of sickness, of daily drudgery, or of uncongenial association, we may still live Christlike lives. We forget that our experiences are needed to bring us into the light of a stronger faith. He chastens us for our good. We learn that God’s love for us may choose out ways of blessing that seem to us the very essence of sorrow, but he thus leads us into grief that he may lead us out into a fuller faith in him, and into a richer experience.

There are lessons we must learn. How can we know his power and wisdom unless we get into situations from which his power and wisdom must rescue us? The afflictions that come sooner or later into every life are sent that we may know ourselves. Nothing short of them could have loosed the moorings that held us to the world, and impelled us to reach out for the hand of our Heavenly Father. Then let us trust him more simply and implicitly. He makes no mistakes, and with tender, individual guidance leads us up into new power for his service, into new gladness in his fellowship.

“He who hath led will lead All through the wilderness. He loveth always, faileth never, So rest on him to-day, forever.”

MRS. F. MALSTER.