A Letter of Encouragement
By B. M. Osgood
BRO. WHITE: I esteem it a great pleasure, as I take up the Review from week to week, to read the letters from the dear brethren and sisters scattered abroad, some of whom like myself live so far from others of like faith, as to be unable to meet in the assemblies of God's saints on the holy Sabbath. To such I think the Review is doubly dear. We need its frequent epistles to stir us up to greater diligence in the Master's service. I rejoice that I have been led to investigate the truths connected with the "third angel's message," and that God has given me strength to embrace them. It is but a few times, that I have been permitted to hear them spoken from the mouth of the living preacher, but when I have, it has been food for my soul. I thank God for giving us his holy word, that we may be able in these days of error to discern what is truth. I feel that I need to be more deeply imbued with the spirit of my Master, than I have been, in order to be fitted for the trials that lie before God's people; and for an inheritance among all that are sanctified when Jesus comes. I need the prayers of God's people that I may so overcome as to be permitted to stand on "Mount Zion with the Lamb." I rejoice that the blessing of God is attending the truth spoken by the Messengers as they go from place to place. May the power of God attend them in their labors more and more, till all his children shall be gathered together; and Jesus comes to take them home to that many-mansioned house, which he is now preparing for them, is my desire and prayer. Your sister striving for the kingdom. B. M. Osgood.