Encouragement for God’s People
By J. N. Wilkinson
BRO. WHITE: It is truly encouraging to the people of God, to hear favorable reports through the Review, respecting the cause which we so much love. It is consoling, even in our darkest hours, to learn that the cause is onward, and to know that the Lord is still at work for the remnant church, and the gathering call is still uniting his people, upon "the commandments of God and faith of Jesus." How important in these days of peril, that we should heed the counsel of the faithful and true Witness, to buy of him gold tried in the fire, that we may be rich, and white raiment that we may be clothed, and to anoint our eyes with eyesalve that we may see. Oh that we might realize the time in which we live and the responsible position we occupy, professing to keep the commandments of God, and to be looking for his Son from Heaven. May the Lord help us to adorn our profession with a well-ordered life and godly conversation. We need assisting grace, and the Lord has promised to give liberally. Then let us come with a true heart, and a full assurance of faith, and ask that we may receive. The Lord is on the giving hand, and we can draw rich draughts from the fountain of salvation, by complying with the requirements of his blessed word. May we be enabled to gird on the armor anew, and have our eye fixed on the prize before us; and in a little from this, we shall outride the storm, and land in the haven of eternal rest. J. N. WILKINSON.
Peterborough, N. H.