The Laodicean Testimony
By Sister Cray
Bro. Smith: I have been permitted over seven years to read the columns of the Review, which has been an interesting and cheering privilege to me in my loneliness. In the communications of others I have many times read my own feelings and experience, and often have I exclaimed, This people is my people, their God is my God, and I hope their home will be my home. I feel that it will be a great thing to gain eternal life. My daily prayer is that God would make me pure and holy. When the cutting testimony to the Laodiceans came out, it seemed to search me through and through. It seemed to me like a case of life and death. I felt rebuked, and wanted to be zealous and repent. I prayed and wept for deliverance, but sometimes when I read my Bible it seemed that every word condemned me; then again it was so sweet, and contained such glorious and precious promises that I would clasp it to my heart and praise God for his revealed will to man; but I truly felt poor and wretched, miserable, and blind, and naked.