FAST-DAY, AUG. 11, 1877.
By M. E. Archer
What a good day this has been! I feel truly thankful that the Vermont Conference Committee appointed a day of fasting and prayer, and can but believe, from the blessing God has bestowed upon me, that our united petitions will be heard and our request granted, in our Father's own appointed time and way. I have been reading “The Sufferings of Christ” this afternoon, and have felt to say, as did Jesus in the hour of trial, “Father, not my will, but thine be done.” “Though we suffer now, we shall triumph then;
Though we die for the Master here,
In that better world we shall live again,
A conqueror’s crown to wear.”
Dear friends, let us be faithful in the discharge of every duty, and make sure work for eternity. Let us not half live, but wholly follow the Lord, and very soon we shall enter the promised land; and oh, what joy to find ourselves safely there! I believe the cause demands holy lives and self-sacrifice, not self-gratification, and as I read how Bro. and Sr. White leave home and friends to work for Jesus, I feel to extend to them, and all the laborers, my heartfelt sympathy; and I often remember them at the throne of grace. May God greatly bless his truth in Vermont, and everywhere.