Healed in Answer to Prayer
By A. A. Marks
BRO. SMITH : I can say that the present truth still lies near my heart, and I wish to be found in union with God's people in this last work of mercy for man, the closing up of the gospel dispensation. I feel thankful to God for what he has done for me of late. Since being at the conference at Battle Creek my health failed me. My faith was weak, and disease so far fastened upon me that I was looking for death to set me free from the trials of earth. I expected to be laid away in the cold ground to wait until Jesus the life-giver should awake the dead. But thank the Lord when Brn. Gurney, Palmer, and others bowed around and began to pray for me, I felt that he heard and answered prayer. Praise his name for his goodness to the children of men. I rejoice in the light that shines for us, and praise God that he has set watchmen on the walls of Zion that will not hold their peace until deliverance shall come. But when I see some manifest a spirit of faultfinding with those that the Lord has called and qualified to give the last message of mercy, I fear for them. I expect that if some such fault finders could get the work under their control we should have a message that would cause saints to weep and the wicked to rejoice and triumph. But the Lord has spoken good concerning Israel, and while a few covetous ones are finding fault, let us, brethren and sisters, go forward unitedly in the great work, and the victory will be ours through Christ.
A. A. MARKS.
Jackson, Mich., July, 1859.