DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS SCATTERED ABROAD:
By Betsey E. Place
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS SCATTERED ABROAD:
I often look on receiving the Review, anxiously, to see if there is not a communication among other cheering epistles from those dear brethren west that brought the third angel's message to us, and were faithful to us after we received it, and for those faithful labors I ever feel to thank God. As I have looked in vain for a long time, it comes home with weight to my mind, What do ye more than others? Perhaps they have been expecting to hear from us. I still stand as a witness for God and the truth. I am still striving to overcome, and the Lord does help me. I have many sore conflicts, but the Lord strengthens me from time to time to bear them, and I have felt of late to consecrate myself anew to God and his precious cause. Yes, I do feel my heart rejoices in the truth. I believe our laboring together on the systematic plan is pleasing to the Lord. Dear brethren and sisters, is it not high time that we arise individually and labor together in this great work of saving our own souls and those of others around us. The church is arising and I mean, the Lord helping me, to get so meek and humble and quiet and teachable that I may have a place among those that shall finally overcome. Oh what a meeting will that be! and who of us can bear to have our worthless names cast out when Christ makes up his jewels? I feel I must be there. Although the way is rough, it cannot be long. “When Satan appears to stop up the path,
And fills us with fears, we'll triumph by faith.
He cannot take from us, tho' oft he has tried,
This heart-cheering promise, The Lord will abide.”