Persecution, Loss, and Faithfulness
Sister L. O. Frink writes from New Buffalo, Mich.: “Beloved brethren and sisters: It is with pleasure I hear from some of you through the Review, although we are strangers. It has been a little more than one year since I embraced the present truth. I have much persecution, but it only makes me firmer. As Christians we must expect persecution, but as we look forward to the day when Christ will come and make up his jewels, it strengthens us to bear all our trials. O let us be faithful to God, putting our trust in him who will deliver us at last. When I think how much he suffered for us while here, I feel that I can suffer any thing for his sake. I wish to be humble at his feet, striving to follow on after him. “The Lord saw fit to afflict me by taking my child from me a little more than one year ago. I felt that it was to draw me to him. I felt that I wanted no more pleasure in sin. I was one of the world, indeed. I delighted in parties, balls, card-playing, &c.; and if there are any who read these few lines that know not the Lord by experimental knowledge, let me entreat you, as I have been on the same road, to turn to God before you travel down to destruction. O turn, turn, for why will ye die? “Brethren, let us permit nothing to take us from our lovely Saviour; but fight the good fight of faith that we may at last win the crown of righteousness, and forever be with the Lord.”