DEAR BRO. WHITE:—When I realize the great goodness of God to us I feel to praise his holy name. The truth is still precious to our souls. As we meet from Sabbath to Sabbath our faith grows stronger in the Lord, and in the Scriptures of divine truth, which are given by inspiration of God, and are profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
We feel thankful to God that we have been led by his Spirit to see the present truth. I thank him that he has given me a willing heart to come out and separate myself from the world and try to keep his holy commandments. I thank him that he has given me a place with his dear children who are trying to overcome every thing that is wrong in the sight of a holy God; and it is my prayer that I may have more strength to overcome every besetting sin and live with an eye single to the glory of God. I often fear for the danger I am in with the rest of my fellow creatures of being overtaken with our sins upon us when Jesus will leave the Sanctuary. Awful day to a wicked world. Then he which is filthy will be filthy still, and he that is righteous will be righteous still. If we are of the righteous with what joy shall we hail his appearing when he shall descend in all his grandeur and power, with all his holy angels, taking vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the gospel, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power. I can say for one that I am determined with God's assistance to set forward in the good cause; and though trials and temptations press sorely upon me and though all the wicked men on the earth were to rise in opposition, yet how securely can we go forward while the strong arm of God bears us up. We have had some very severe trials to pass through here, but the Lord has been with us and sustained us up to the present, and in a great measure worked deliverance for us.
Never did the word appear so plain, and the commandments so pure and holy as at the present. O how plain it is that the Sabbath is a sign between God and his people, that it is the Lord that doth sanctify them. I rejoice that God has opened my eyes to behold wondrous things out of his law. In this present crisis let us watch and pray, patiently keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and trust the promise, 'I will keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell on the earth.' May we all prove faithful unto the end and at last receive the promise, even eternal life.