p. 71 | Extracts from Letters

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 24, 1865

Extracts from Letters.

Sister J. A. King writes from Fox Lake, Wis.: The Lord is very good to me and I am striving to obey Him. I have found Him to be a present help in every time of need. I find that He is indeed the widow's God. I cannot better express myself than by the following lines, which I learned when a child. They may be applicable to others besides myself.

"My God, my love, my life, my light, My morning joy, my evening rest, Thy smiles illume the dreary night, And calm the tremors of my breast. Thy truths from infant days have shed A lustre mild my path along, Upheld and cheered my fainting head, And lived upon my raptured tongue."

"When like the leaf of autumn fell, The social sharer of my all, When loudly moaned the doleful knell And slowly moved the sable pall, Thy breath, Almighty God, sustained My trembling feet along the way, Thy reverend smile my grief restrained And round me shed celestial day."

"How shall I sing thy wondrous love? How elevate thy gracious lay? To that compassion faithful prove That melts the shaft of death away? Oh could I climb the morning skies I'd write thy love in lines of fire, That all the world with gazing eyes, Might read and with my soul admire."

Sister S. A. Beach writes from Norfolk, Ct.: I feel like thanking God that it has been my privilege to become acquainted with those that are proclaiming the third angel's message, and that God is deepening his work in my heart. I want to gain the "gold tried in the fire," &c. May God carry on his work in my heart until Jesus can present me before his Father without spot or any such thing.

Bro. J. Nichols writes from La Porte City, Iowa: I love the truths advocated by the Review and Herald, and am trying to live them out. I believe Jesus will soon come the second time without sin unto salvation. I want to be ready to meet him. He has done much for me; and I feel to praise him. I want to be numbered with his peculiar people who are zealous of good works. There are too many false professors in the world, who do not hearken to the voice of God. They do not love his commandments. They do not love the appearing of Jesus. They even point the finger of scorn at those who desire his coming. May the Lord help me and all the brethren to be faithful till Jesus comes, is my humble prayer.