A PROMISE FULFILLED by George M. Brown

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 21, 1902

A PROMISE FULFILLED.

By George M. Brown

GEORGE M. BROWN.

RECENTLY I had the privilege of visiting a church where I met an aged mother in Israel, who told me her experience in claiming the promise of the Lord found in Ps. 91: 10.

The family of her son being afflicted with smallpox, it became necessary for “grandma” to help care for the sick. Before going to the bedside of the sick, she knelt before God, with her Bible open before her; and with her finger on the promise, “There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling,” she asked the Lord to fulfil this promise to her by strengthening her to care for the sick, and that He would preserve herself and husband from taking the disease.

For days and nights at a time this lady of eighty-five years did not take off her clothes to rest; yet she was sustained, and at the end of forty-one days, when the quarantine was raised, she came out as well and strong as she was when she began her work.

Signally did the tender Father fulfill His promise, for no symptom of the disease was seen in her, or in her husband, who was also exposed.

We believe that God will preserve us from the seven last plagues if we are obedient to Him. Why should we not claim this promise now, and by living in harmony with the laws of health which God has made known to us, place ourselves in the position where He can be honored by making a difference between His people and the world, as He did in days of old, when the plagues of Egypt fell not in the land of Goshen? “Ask, and it shall be given you.” “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.”