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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 12, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 36, No. 4.

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R. A. WORDEN

By R. A. Worden

From Sister Worden.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: Under the plea of inability to instruct or edify, I have suffered my pen to lie idle for months, and years; but being aroused by Bro. Smith's remarks in the REVIEW, I resolved to try to add my mite to the Conference Department, if nothing more.
Nearly eight years have passed since I was led to embrace present truth. In reviewing those eight years, I find the record incomplete. It is not as I could desire to see it. I have not improved upon the talent lent me, as my Lord demands. I have been sadly deficient in the great work of preparation in which we all have an interest. All have something to do. I realize I must make a great effort to retrieve the past. “For the night is far spent, the day is at hand,” and I would be found with a “pure heart and clean hands” doing the work the Lord has assigned me. The language of my heart to day is with the psalmist, when he said, “My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.”
The tracts that have been circulated, have tended to arouse the clergy, and there seems to be a spirit of investigation in the people more than ever before.
Oh! that the Lord may give us grace to live out the truth in such a manner, that others may be brought under the protection of the truth, which is to be a shield and buckler.

R. A. WORDEN

St. Clair Co., Mich.