Unity Among God's Children
By Martha Rice
BRO. WHITE: I feel very thankful for the privilege which I have of reading the Review. It is truly a welcome messenger to me from week to week. Much light and truth has been presented to my mind through its columns, for which my heart has been made to rejoice in the Lord; also, the many and stirring epistles from the brethren and sisters scattered abroad, have been to me as food to a hungry soul; and I would that I might drop one encouraging or comforting word in return, to the tried, the tempted, the sorrowing, or afflicted ones. I feel that I would share in the trials and afflictions of God's children, that their sorrows may be my sorrows and their joys my joys. I feel in unison with them and glad to see them striving to come to the unity of the faith. The apostle Paul, in writing to the church at Corinth, says, "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment." The people of God united will stand, and I for one want to be with that people, and I think the time is soon coming when all God's children will be united. Then peace, love, and joy, will prevail, truth will triumph; God will be honored and glorified. O then let us try to come to that unity which God requires of his children. It is nearly five years since I commenced keeping the Sabbath, and I can say I still hail its hours with delight, and have been led to say with the Psalmist many times, "O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day." I do not feel like giving up, but I do feel like pressing my way on to the heavenly city. I long to see my Saviour coming in his beauty. "I long to be delivered from this vain world of sin,"
And with my blessed Saviour drink endless pleasures I have trials and troubles to encounter, and often feel that the enemy would get power over me, but my trust is in the Lord who has said, "My grace is sufficient for you." To those who are tried and afflicted; I would say, Trust in the sure promises of God. Cling to them by living faith. The Lord will never leave nor forsake those who put their trust in him. The Lord will be the hope of his people. David has said, "Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God." I desire to so live that I may be prepared for what is coming on the earth, and for an entrance into the coming kingdom. O who will be inheritors of that glorious land? "He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity." MARTHA RICE.
North Hartland, Niagara Co. N. Y.