MARY A. TILDEN by Mary A. Tilden

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 6, 1859

MARY A. TILDEN

By Mary A. Tilden

From Sister Tilden.

BRO. SMITH : I have been waiting nearly a year to get money to send you for the Review and Youth's Instructor. I am a lonely widow, left with a little girl ten years old, and she is a weakly, crippled child. For months she has begged me to write you for the Instructor. If you will send me these papers we will read them with eagerness, and promise to do all the good with them we can. There is no one in Appleton that I know of that keeps the true Sabbath. My husband died the 7th of July, strong in the faith. When I told him I thought he was dying, he said, "If I am, there is no terror. I have a hope in the first resurrection."

I cannot express to you the great satisfaction and comfort he took in reading the Bible, and comparing the Review with the word of God. He often said you had the truth, and exhorted me to hold it fast, let others say what they would. I feel that my loss is his great gain. My only hope is in God. Hitherto I have trusted in the arm of flesh. I now feel to look beyond this vale of tears. I have no confidence in any thing but God. Often when I know not where the next meal is coming from, there is some door open. I never knew what it was to be thankful for food until my husband's death. I have had many disappointments, and losses, and trials, to pass through. As soon as I can I will pay for the paper. My health is very poor.

Yours truly.

MARY A. TILDEN

Appleton, Wis. Dec. 18th, 1858.

NOTE.—We cheerfully send the papers free.—ED.