Extracts from Letters

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 1, 1859

Extracts from Letters.

Sister S. Allen writes from Galva, Ills. : "The Review has been a great comfort to me while away from all Sabbath-keepers, and has helped to soothe my aching heart in the hour of affliction. There I have fonnd sympathetic friends, those who were willing to weep with those that wept. And while I was reading of the affliction of sister Ray, where she says, 'Can those sisters who have had the same affliction drop a tear with me?' I felt to say, Dear sister, I have a heart to sympathize with the mourner. For a few short years I have been made to wade through the deep waters of affliction. I have had to bid adieu to my dear parents, a sister and many dear friends, beside standing by the dying bedside of three lovely sons, witnessing their last struggle with the enemy death. Oh who can feel more anguish than a mother when she begins to see the cold sweat on the brow of her children, and their limbs stiffen in death, when her ever ready hands have done the last she can do for them. But O I feel that it is good to trust in the arm of God."

"Had it not been for the many precious promises in the word of God, I should have sunk under the weight of affliction. But I believe that we in trial should not forget the sufferings of the dear Lamb of God, and of his present mission in the heavenly sanctuary, preparing a place for all those who shall come up out of great tribulation, having washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb. Oh yes, he has promised to bring our friends from the land of the enemy, all that have a part in the first resurrection. Hasten the glorious morn. Come Lord Jesus, come quickly."