IRENA G. CAMP by Irena G. Camp

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Aug 2, 1864

IRENA G. CAMP

By Irena G. Camp

From Sister Camp.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS : Who of us, especially those of us who are beginning to bow with age, but must be deeply affected in view of the sublimity of David's prayer as brought to view and explained in Testimony No 10. If David was strongly moved and distressed with fear that God would leave him to be as unhappy as other aged persons, and to the reproach of the enemies of the Lord, should not we too fear and tremble, living as we do in the last days, surrounded by every unhallowed influence, and when Satan has come down in great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time? Should not we as earnestly pray, "Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth?" And can we not some of us say with David, "O God, thou hast taught me from my youth, and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, until I have showed thy strength unto this generation [the strength of God which is made perfect in our weakness and enables us to cleave closely to him], and thy power to every one that is to come." The power of God to save from all sin and make us holy in heart and life, and finally to grant us some humble seat in his kingdom.

IRENA G. CAMP

East Bethel, Vt.