Encouragement in Christian Trials
By David Lamson
Bro. White: I wish to add my testimony to the many which appear from week to week in the Review for the comfort and edification of the saints. It often seems to me, when reading such epistles from different ones, that they receive, even while writing, a special blessing for the efforts they make to cheer and encourage the disciples of Jesus. Blessed above all others is that people whom the Lord hath chosen for his inheritance. And though at times our path may be o'ershadowed, and we be like men walking in thick clouds, yet the promise is that He will be our hope, and shield, and help, according as we hope in Him. And has not the Lord said, “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will guide thee with mine eye.” Oh! is it not good to know that angels are our helpers, if we fear the Lord, and repel the enemy of our souls, we know not how often? Then in all our trials, in any trouble and every discouraging influence, let us look away to Jesus, in that bright land, and to our inheritance. How much we have to encourage, and how little to affect us otherwise, if we only look on the bright side, and to the prize which is so nearly in view. Every day brings us nearer home, and nearer to that eventful day which shall be so full of gloom to the wicked, but of joy to the righteous. Let us then not only look on the bright side, but keep on the right side.
DAVID LAMSON.
Walton, Eaton Co., Mich.