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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 5.

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By L. E. Milne

“I will pray the Father, and he shall send you another comforter, that he may abide with you forever.” Blessed promise! O weary child of God, does the way look rough and thorny? Have all earthly friends failed you? Do you feel the cruel ire of the dragon, because you are trying to keep all God’s commandments which are pure, enlightening the eyes? Oh! let not your hearts be troubled. Though Satan and his hosts, are raging around you, the angel of the Lord encampeth about you, and why should you fear? Was not Daniel, the servant of the living God, safe in the lion’s den; and do you not think his heart was rejoicing in God the rock of his salvation? You who are looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of our adorable Redeemer, who are living amid the perils of these last days, do you not think our kind Heavenly Father has a peculiar care for his tried and tempest-tossed children? Have you received the blessed promise of the Father, and has the Comforter taken his abode in your heart? Does Jesus abide with you a welcome guest? oh! then is your peace like a river, and your joy unspeakable and full of glory. God is your sun and shield. You are enjoying the glorious liberty of the sons of God, and you can say that his law is your delight; yea sweeter than honey and the honey comb, and better to you than thousands of gold and silver; and you behold wondrous things out of his law. And the blessed hope that we are so near his kingdom, how it lifts us above the storm-cloud of this poor world. I can say to the praise and glory of God, that the Comforter abides with me. Yes,
I have entered the valley of blessing so sweet, And Jesus abides with me there; And his Spirit and blood makes my cleansing complete, And his perfect love casteth out fear. Oh! come to this valley of blessing so sweet, Where Jesus his fullness bestows, And believe and receive and confess at his feet, That all his salvation may know.”
L. E. MILNE.