Trials and Hope in Saginaw
By L. M. Guilford
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: For the first time do I attempt to write in behalf of the cause I love. It is some over a year since we commenced trying to serve God by keeping his commandments. O what slow progress we make. It seems at times as if the enemy would get the rule over me. Trials deep and sore have been mine, but God in his mercy has not entirely left me. A ray of light is at times to be seen in the thick darkness that overshadows me. 'Tis then I feel like exclaiming, "His loving kindness endureth forever." We are a lonely few, in the back woods of Saginaw. Still we trust the God of Israel is on our side, and if we trust him fully, he is more than can be against us. Brother Rhodes is the only one that ever visited and explained to us the great truths that are in the Bible. I feel grateful that I ever had a heart to obey. Though I make but little progress in the cause of present truth, it is a cause I love. It is cheering to know how the truth is rising in the West. We earnestly hope that some one of the messengers may see it duty to come to Saginaw the coming winter to present before this people the perils of the last days. Pray for your sister that she may overcome all besetments, and stand with the remnant on mount Zion.
L. M. GUILFORD.
Fremont, Saginaw Co., Mich.