DEAR BRO. WHITE:—I feel that we are truly living in a solemn moment of time, in a time when we need to walk carefully before God. I see by the word of God that we are having the last message of mercy to be given to a dying world, and while Jesus has entered into the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Sanctuary, blotting out the errors of his people, I want to get rid of all my errors and sins, that they may be blotted out before Jesus leaves his mediatorial office, and is seen seated on the white cloud.
I praise God for what he has done for me in these last moments of time; for light and truth which have shone in my pathway, and that I am counted worthy to be numbered with the little remnant who are striving to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Many times when I look at the straightness of the way to the holy city, and when I view how holy and pure that company must be that enters the holy city, I often exclaim, shall I be there. I want to be there. I mean by the grace of God to strive to overcome, that I may be counted worthy to escape all things that are coming upon the earth, and to stand before the Son of man when he appears the second time without sin unto salvation. I feel that the Christian's hope is truly a blessed hope, a hope beyond this world of sin and sorrow. 1 Cor. xv, 19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all men the most miserable. The Christian's hope reaches beyond this vale of tears: it enters to that within the vale, whither Jesus for us has entered. What a bright prospect lies before the children of God, if faithful a little longer. I feel like putting my whole trust in God and walking in the straight and narrow path that leads to life. I do desire to be a humble follower of Jesus, that I may be among the little number that John saw stand on mount Zion, that will sing the song that no other man can learn.