HANNAH CLOUGH by Hannah Clough

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 29, 1856

HANNAH CLOUGH

By Hannah Clough

From Sister Clough.

DEAR BROTHER:—I am greatly encouraged and edified in reading the communications from the dear brethren and sisters through the Review, and I would just say to them all, Press on a little longer, and the prize will be sure. Victory will turn on Zion's side. If the Commandment-keepers have not the Lord on their side, I ask, Where will you find him? Certainly not among the proud and popular sects of the day; not, indeed, but that I think there are individual Christians among them, but the majority seem bent upon gratifying "the pride of life and the lust of the eye" to their heart's content; and an awful destruction awaits such, but they heed it not. My sympathies are with that little remnant who are trying to live by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord.

We read that Enoch walked with God, and he was not; for God took him. I believe the remnant in these last days must walk closely with God, if they ever expect to be translated as Enoch was. The mere name of being a Sabbath-keeper will not deliver us in the great day of his wrath: it will only be the pure in heart that will then stand the solemn test. I pray God to pour out of his Spirit into your hearts and mine, that we may have a more lively sense of the solemn scenes that are before us, and of the great work there is to be done, in us, and by us, to fit us for that better land.

I feel now while I am writing as if I wanted to praise the Lord that he has done so much for me. I thank his name that I ever heard the Third Angel's Message, and that I had strength to come out from a popular church amidst much opposition and ridicule, and unite with the dear brethren and sisters in Sutton and Wheelock. Pray for us, brethren, that we may hold on and hold out.

Your sister in the Lord.

HANNAH CLOUGH

Lyndon, Vt., May 6th, 1856.