Trusting God Amid War

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 1, 1861

Trusting God Amid War

Bro. J. B. Merritt writes from Cheney's Grove, Ills.: "My desire is for the advancement of the cause, and I feel religiously bound to contribute of my means to sustain the same. I feel thankful to our divine Father that amid the commotions of our once peaceful land, and the call to arms that is resounding in our ears, we have nothing to fear while we put explicit confidence in the promise that says, I will never leave nor forsake those that put their trust in me. Our trust must be in God. We must be girded with the panoply of heaven. We must have on the habiliments of righteousness; and being thus equipped and following the example of Him that spake as never man spake, we may expect to conquer the flesh and the devil, and have fellowship with the Father and the Son, and of just men made perfect. May the Lord so direct and influence us by his good Spirit through the teaching of his word, that we may reach those high attainments and enjoy eternal life, is my desire and prayer."