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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 25, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 11, No. 19.

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Waiting Upon the Lord

By Emily L. Derby

From Sister Derby.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: The following language of the Psalmist well expresses my mind: "I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. Truly my soul waiteth upon God; from him cometh my salvation. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. My help cometh from the Lord, who made heaven and earth."
O how good the Lord is to those that put their trust in him. He never will leave nor forsake them. Earthly friends may forsake, but he is "the same yesterday, to-day and forever." I do feel to praise the Lord for the glorious light that illumines the pathway of the remnant, and it will shine more and more unto the perfect day. Surely the Lord does manifest himself unto his people as he does not unto the world; and if ever there was a people that were under obligation to love the Lord with all the heart, they are those that he is doing so much for, it is the people that are expecting him to shelter them from the storm that is soon coming on all the unrighteous.
Dear brethren and sisters, let us awake to righteousness, let us strive for an abundant entrance into the holy city, and let us remember that they only can enter who have pure hearts and clean hands.
Your unworthy sister striving to overcome and lay up treasure in heaven. EMILY L. DERBY.
Perry's Mills, Feb. 23d, 1858.