Walking Nearer the Lord
By Semantha Baker
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: It is now about five years since I embraced the present truth, and this is the first time I have ever attempted to speak to my brethren and sisters through the Review. I have been a slothful, unprofitable servant thus far, but I feel like walking nearer the Lord in time to come. I see more and more the necessity of being up and doing while I have opportunity, lest I be weighed in the balance and found wanting. The pure in heart have the promise of seeing God. Oh, God, purify my heart, is my prayer, and make me a fit subject for thy kingdom. This world and the things of the world, look to me of little consequence, compared with the world to come, and the glories soon to be revealed to the children of God. I long to know that my ways please him. Our enemy is strong and would if possible deceive the very elect, therefore I feel the need of that wisdom which cometh from above, also of girding on the whole armor that I may be able to stand. It is a great thing to be a christian, and I fear many times that I shall come short, but if I know my own heart, I desire above everything else to be one. I think I can see that the cause of truth is on the rise, and I desire to arise with it. I can say in the language of another, "O give me a place in thy kingdom,
When life with its turmoil is o'er;
Let me dwell with the King in his beauty,
And I ask, O, I ask for no more."
Yours hoping for victory, SEMANTHA BAKER. Ulysses, Pa., Oct. 3d, 1858.