Faithfulness Through Church Trials by John Norton Loughborough

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 27, 1855

Faithfulness Through Church Trials

By John Norton Loughborough

From Bro. Laughhead.

DEAR BRO. WHITE:—Through the goodness of a kind Providence I am permitted to address a few lines to you. I still love the truth of God in which I have rejoiced for several years, and I am grieved and deeply mourn over the trials that afflict the church of God, and the effort that the enemy is putting forth to bring the truth to the ground and overthrow our faith; but still I believe that the Lord will take care of his truth and his faithful servants, and though some are deceived, yet in his own time he will vindicate his truth and save his people; for the Lord will have a tried, a perfect and a holy people. Zech. xiii, 9; 1 Pet. i, 7; iv, 12; Jas. i, 3, 4; 2 Cor. xiii, 11; Heb. xii, 14; Eph. i, 4; 1 Cor. iii, 16, 17; Eph. v, 27.

Now dear brother, I believe the Lord will turn these trials for our good and that he will overrule all things to the glory of his name and the salvation of his people. I feel to cast myself on the mercy of God, and take heed to my ways according to the word of the Lord. Ps. cxix, 9. And the Apostle says, if we judge ourselves we shall not be judged; and it is my earnest desire that I may not be judged with the wicked, but be numbered with the remnant that keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus, and have right to the tree of life that is in the Paradise of God.

Dear brother, be faithful and trust in the Lord; for it is through much tribulation that we are to enter the kingdom of God, and may the Lord give you grace and wisdom to act wisely in this time of trial, is the prayer of your brother looking for salvation at the appearing of Jesus Christ our Lord.

J. A. LAUGHHEAD. Chemung Co., N. Y., Dec. 8th, 1855.