A Scattered Believer's Encouragement
Sister C. B. Spaulding writes from Metamora, Ills., May 23d, 1857: "I have not had the privilege of meeting with any of like precious faith for nearly two years, and it is more than one year since I have seen any one who was keeping all the commandments. "I do not feel discouraged, but am resolved to press my way on, and endure to the end. It seems very lonely here sometimes. I know how to sympathize with those who are scattered, and did I not feel that I have the prayers of the children of God, I fear that I should fall; but I believe that the fervent effectual prayer of the righteous man avails much. "May the Lord help us one and all to arise and let the Saviour into our hearts, that he may sup with us and we with him. May the Lord help us to be zealous and repent, and buy gold tried in the fire that we may be rich, and white raiment that we may be clothed, and anoint our eyes with eye-salve that we may see; and may the Lord help us to overcoome, that we may sit with Jesus on his throne, with all the blood-washed throng to praise him for ever."