The Golden Links by M. Wood

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 5, 1872

The Golden Links.

By M. Wood

It has frequently been remarked, that our cause would presently droop; that there were already, marvelous symptoms of decline upon us; that it was all but impossible for a little handful as it were, to hold out much longer when the whole world was against us. But, we reply, if God be for us, who can be against us? Let those who predict a decline in this work, carefully and prayerfully peruse our publications, especially, the ADVENT REVIEW, AND HERALD OF THE SABBATH, which is brought to us week after week, laden with the glad tidings of precious souls being brought into the ark of safety, unto the keeping of God's holy Sabbath. Surely God is with his people. After a careful perusal of the REVIEW, especially the page devoted to the progress of the cause, we seem at once to have entered a different climate, as though the winter was past, and the moral darkness which overspreads the true and honest in heart, was fast clearing away, and God's truth making rapid stride throughout the length and breadth of the earth: gathering a few here, and a few there, from the merciless storm, which is ready to burst upon an ungodly world.

Yes, day by day, links are added to the golden chain, which ere long will encircle the true family of God. Our numbers, it is true, are small, compared with the vast numbers belonging to the nominal churches. We are scattered from Maine to California, and a few afar off in Switzerland; but our views, our hopes, our spirits, are one.

M. Wood.

Boston, Mass.