A Testimony of Faith and Holiness
By M. T. Scott
Bro. White: I am thankful that I have the privilege of speaking through the Review and acknowledging to the brethren and sisters my own unworthiness and the goodness of God to me. For more than a year I have been striving to get nearer to God. I have passed through many dark hours, temptations, and strugglings with the enemy; but I feel as if I had passed through a refining fire, and to-day finds me, not with a greater abundance of joy than I have often experienced in my Christian warfare, but with a greater degree of knowledge of godliness for which I most heartily thank my Father in Heaven. Oh how I long to meet with the true children of God, and with them enjoy the gracious outpouring of his Spirit, but I am alone with none of like faith to commune with. But thank God, I have his blessed presence to strengthen me, still I long to be nearer the throne. The Review is a weekly visitor which I prize very highly. Bro. Bourdeau's remarks on holiness came to me as meat in due season. I am striving for holiness without which none shall see God; yet I feel my weakness. Brethren and sisters, let us gird on the armor, and be ready to meet the Bridegroom at his coming. I think there might be much good done, could a messenger come here late this fall, or in the winter; for there have been no meetings here of any kind for over a year; hence the people would be glad to come out and hear the Lord's truth. We shall have a large brick schoolhouse completed by winter, and the country is thickly settled. We live five miles from Bridgeport the nearest point on the Milwaukie and Prarie du Chien R. R.