A Testimony of Faith and Perseverance
By N. Keezer
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS : I read with pleasure your testimonies in the Review, and would like to hear from many more especially the lonely ones. What a comfort it is to them, that God is not confined to numbers but is willing to meet even one; and none can hinder them from holding communication with him daily. Be true to your Lord and Saviour, and you need not fear to tread the rough and thorny way. Though all at times may look dark, yet remember that Jesus has said, "Lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." I thank the Lord for his goodness in giving me a disposition to hear and embrace the present truth. My hope is in God, that he will give me grace to stand through every scene before us. We have our house built upon the sure foundation, the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus; and if we but furnish it with the graces of the Spirit, reflect the lovely image of Jesus and in all our ways acknowledge him, the floods may come, the winds blow, but we can claim the promise, it shall not fall. If we are overcome it does not benefit us to go back, but to make another desperate effort, though besieged on every side, to go through. Thus may we get the "gold tried in the fire, that we may be rich, the white raiment that we may be clothed, and anoint our eyes with eye-salve that we may see, and so an entrance shall be ministered unto us abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Pray for us brethren and sisters that I may overcome and stand with you on mount Zion, to behold the king in his beauty. Yours in hope of life in the new earth.
N. KEEZER.
Lodi, Wis.