The Refining of God’s People
By Lois J. Richmond
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—I feel a deep and increasing interest in the cause of God and his truth, and an ardent desire to be wholly consecrated to him and to come up to the high standard of true happiness without which I shall not be able to stand in the trying time that is before us. The conflict is coming. God's people must go through the furnace. The dross must be consumed in order to be fitted for the Paridise of God; and I often feel to exclaim, Who will be able to stand. God will have a holy people. The wheat he will gather into the garner, but the chaff he will consume. Those that are not willing to deny self but choose to cling to their errors will be shaken out from among God's people and consumed with the wicked. Solemn indeed is the time in which we live. Yours striving for holiness of heart,
LOIS. J. RICHMOND.
Nov. 25th, 1854.