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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 15, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 41, No. 18.

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Faith in God.

By M. J. Randall Fulton

What a fountain of happiness is contained in this short sentence, Faith in God. One can but be happy if he believes in the blessed promises; for we find in the Book of all books that consoling passage, All things work together for good to those that love the Lord. What would poor mortal creatures do when called upon to part with the dearest ties of earth, had they not access to the throne of grace; for all things earthly are then shrouded in darkness, and there is no comfort or consolation to be derived from any source, save in believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. I speak from experience. I have been called to pass through the furnace of affliction twice within sixteen months. The monster death entered my family and snatched away my two only daughters, aged, respectively, five and seventeen years, yet I can say with Job, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him;” for I believe if we bear our afflictions patiently, they will eventually work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
By the assisting grace of God, I feel determined to try to discharge every known and Christian duty, that at last I may be accounted worthy to have part and lot in the first resurrection, where the loved and lost will be restored to me, and I shall be permitted to behold him in whom I have trusted, and who has promised to receive all who come unto him. I believe that he is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him.
I am trying to keep all the commandments. Although it requires many sacrifices to keep the fourth, I feel I have ever been rewarded in so doing. Never in all my Christian experience have I enjoyed my mind as since I commenced keeping the seventh day. My faith is daily increasing in the Lord, as I become better acquainted with the Scriptures. I feel more resigned to his will, for there we learn, “Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,” and if all things are to work together for good, then why should I murmur or complain, or think that my portion is hard, while it is my privilege to say, God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble?
M. J. RANDALL FULTON.
Kalamazoo, Mich.