p. 199 | M. E. FESSENDEN by M. E. Fessenden

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 19, 1861

M. E. FESSENDEN

By M. E. Fessenden

From Sister Fessenden.

DEAR BRO. WHITE: It has been but a little over one year since I first enlisted in the service of God; and although the way has been fraught with many trials and temptations, although I have found many crosses to take up, yet I feel no desire to turn back and seek after the giddy pleasures of the world; but I thank God that he ever called after me by the gentle influences of his holy Spirit; that he ever permitted me to hear the truths of the third angel's message, called me from nature's darkness into his marvelous light, and gave me a heart to obey his truth. I realize that I have yet a great deal to overcome, and my daily prayer is for grace to overcome all my besetting sins, and all my evil propensities, that I may at last come off victorious through the blood of the Lamb. Pray for me, dear brethren and sisters, that I may be found ready and waiting when Jesus comes, and be of that happy number that can look up and say, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him and he will save us.

Your sister striving to overcome.

M. E. FESSENDEN

Cambria, Wis.