A Word from an Aged Sister.
By Sister S. Osgood
Sister S. Osgood writes from Haverhill, Mass.: I was seventy-two years of age last March. I have been traveling the good old way for many years. It is about forty-one years since, I trust, that God for Christ's sake forgave my sins, and although I have made many crooked paths, the Lord has been merciful to me, and has led me in a way that I knew not. He has carried me through many trials and troubles, and I have ever found him a present help in time of need. I feel to praise his holy name to-day for what he has done for me. It is twenty years since I believed in the near coming of Jesus. I believed he would come on the tenth day of the seventh month, 1844, and tried to show my faith by my works. With many others, I was disappointed, but not discouraged. I am still looking for him, and feel that evidences brighten every day, that he will soon appear. I am striving to be ready, and hold fast whereunto I have attained, that no one take my crown. Let us praise God that Jesus is soon coming to put an end to sin and wickedness. Dear sisters, I want to say a word about the Sabbath; for it is very near my heart. I know some have trials in their families about cooking on that day. Well, I also had. But it is now eleven years since I became decided on that point, and the Lord has blessed me in trying to keep the Sabbath holy. I have done no cooking, not even to boiling a potato on the Lord's holy Sabbath. My dear sisters, I feel that God's holy Sabbath is very precious to me. Now if any of the dear sisters are tried on these things, only be decided for God, and put your trust in him, and he will clear the way before you. O how good the Lord is to his poor, erring creatures. Let us praise him for what he has done for us, and for what he is still doing for us. I want to praise him the few days I have to stay here on earth, and when Jesus comes I want to be able to meet you all on Canaan's happy shore, where we shall meet to part no more.