Preparing for the Day of the Lord
By Sarah Farrar
Dear Bro. White: It is now more than four years since we commenced to keep the Sabbath, and I can truly say that I have never regretted it. The Sabbath is a delight, holy of the Lord and honorable. I love to meet with God's dear children. I praise God that I have a place among his remnant people. "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised; and let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another, and so much the more as we see the day approaching." "For yet a little while and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry." I do want to be prepared for the great and terrible day of the Lord. I want a shelter from the storm that is fast gathering. Lord, hide me in thy pavilion till these calamities be overpast. Truly we are living in a grand and awful time. I want to realize more fully this time in which we are living. "Budding fig-trees tell that summer
Dawns o'er the land;
Signs portend that Jesus' coming
Is near at hand." Bro. Steward was at Marquette last Sabbath and first-day. He preached on the sanctuary, and the necessity of the gifts in the church. I want to confess all my sins before Jesus leaves the heavenly sanctuary, and come with God's people into the unity of the faith by means of those gifts he has set in the church.