p. 167 | MALINDA B. PIERCE by Malinda B. Pierce

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 26, 1857

MALINDA B. PIERCE

By Malinda B. Pierce

From Sister Pierce.

BRO. SMITH: I take my pen at this time to address a few lines to you. I feel that what has been written on the Laodicean state of the church has been sanctified to my good. It has caused me to examine myself more closely, and try and watch more every moment, lest I enter into temptation, or let something slip from my lips that God will not approve of. I feel as if I had been far from where I should be; but I do feel more decided and determined than ever before, God being my helper, to try and live out the principles of his holy Word.

God verifies his promise to me, that "as thy day is, so thy strength shall be." And the more I hear against the truth, the more I love it. It helps me to stick closer to the Bible, and feel more like a pilgrim and stranger here.

I was told yesterday by a member of the church to which we formerly belonged, that he believed it was the Devil that gave me this light; and that the Devil was making a tool of father Pierce and myself, to pull down the cause of God in this place; and that all our influence was on the wrong side; but before he ended the conversation, he told me that neither he nor any one else found fault with my daily walk as a christian, only that I work on Sunday. I felt grieved, but the Lord gave me strength; and I would not exchange the peace that I enjoyed for all the gold the whole church wears or the professed church, (and that is not a little.) But lest I weary you by my long writing I will close. Pray for us that our faith fail not.

Yours for the whole truth.

MALINDA B. PIERCE

Andover, Vt.