The Judgment Hour and Coming Kingdom
By Frances Strong
BRO. SMITH: I would address a few lines to the church through the Review. I am still trying to overcome through the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony. That we are now in the judgment hour I fully believe, when the sins of God's people will go to judgment beforehand, that they may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord, when he shall send Jesus with all his holy angels to gather home his elect. Come and let us return unto the Lord; for he hath torn and he will heal us, he hath smitten and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us; in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord, his going forth is prepared as the morning, and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. Hosea vi, 1-3. I do feel truly thankful for all the way in which the Lord has led us, and for what he has done and is still doing. He has led us in a way which we knew not of, and brought us through trials seen and unseen. "But what are all our sufferings here,
If Lord thou count us meet,
With all the enraptured host to appear,
And worship at thy feet." With my eyes fixed on Jesus and the coming kingdom, I feel that I have nothing to fear. "I do rejoice that life was given
In these last days for me,
That deathless I may rise to heaven,
And my Redeemer see." In hope, waiting for the redemption of the promised possession. FRANCES STRONG. West Milton, N. Y., April, 1857.