Comfort in Bereavement and Hope
By S. B. Ray
Bro. Smith: I am still striving in weakness to serve the Lord. I feel very lonely since the death of my dear husband, and realize that there is but one true source from whence we may derive comfort in the day of adversity. I know that this severe trial was designed for my best good, and it will help work out for me a far more exceeding and an eternal weight of glory if I am rightly exercised thereby. I will try by the grace of God to so live in this world of care and disappointment, of losses and crosses, of scoffs and frowns, that when Christ shall come to make up his jewels I may be one of that happy number which shall have part in the first resurrection, on whom the second death will have no power. It appears to me that it will not be long before this great event will transpire. How awful will be the scene when the trumpet shall sound to awake the sleeping millions! The Lord grant that all who name the name of Christ may depart from all iniquity, and in that great day be found with their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. Your unworthy sister. S. B. RAY.