Faith Amid Suffering by E. L. Barr

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 16, 1861

Faith Amid Suffering

By E. L. Barr

From Bro. Barr.

BRO. SMITH: As my feeble health makes it quite burdensome for me to write, it would save me much time and labor to say through the Review to my kind friends East, that for almost one year past I have been a sufferer under the oppressive power of disease, and for a while expected to go into the grave; but God's preserving mercy was extended to me while his faithful children took the best of care of me, so that I am now gaining slowly, and expect to more rapidly as soon as the season is such that I can engage in some light out door work. And now though weak in body and in mind, yet my faith and confidence is strong and unshaken in the solemn truths of the third angel's message, and the great and last work that it is accomplishing in the world. God's hand is set to the work, and it will go forward "whether we live or die, survive or perish." And now, if in the providence of God you should never hear from me personally again, let me say to one and all, Get the love of the blessed truth so deeply rooted in your hearts that its sanctifying influence will be seen in all your life, and receive as the sentiment of my heart the words, yes the kind comforting words of the Apostle as recorded in 2 Cor. xiii, 11.

Yours in love of the truth, hoping for rest when the suffering, refining process is completed. E. L. BARR. Nile, Allegany Co., N. Y.