p. 102 | Peace in Believing

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Feb 21, 1865

Peace in Believing.

BRO. WHITE: I feel thankful to my Heavenly Father for what he has done for me. I feel that he loves me and has a desire that I should be saved in his kingdom. Truly God is good.

When I first earnestly began to think upon my ways and saw my wretched condition, and felt how guilty I was before God, then I felt that God must be merciful or I should be lost. I felt that without his approbation there was no joy for me. But how could I find favor in the sight of him who knew my sinful heart. Oh how I longed to be a Christian and feel that my guilt was removed. For many days I felt to say, “What shall I do?” I knew there were many glorious promises, made to sinners if they would repent; but how could I believe they were for me? I was willing to comply with the conditions of the gospel; but I wanted to have the assurance that I was accepted. My faith was weak. But when I thought of the boundless love of God, and the pity he has for those that fear him, and of the compassion of Jesus, and what he had done and suffered for a race of sinners, and of his words, “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out,” I could but resolve to claim Jesus for my Saviour. I then thought “I will go to Jesus. I will reform and be his disciple. I will claim that his atoning blood is able to cleanse me from all guilt and sin.”

I went forward and was baptized and have tried to comply with all the conditions of salvation; and, blessed be God, I have felt that peace I so longed to enjoy. I feel to praise God for the light of present truth. I love to keep his commandments. I want to keep pace with his people as they journey to Mt. Zion, and be rewarded with them in the everlasting kingdom.

“Oh what a blessed hope is ours, Who’re waiting for our Lord. It buoys us up in trying hours, It’s founded on God’s word.”

In hope of immortality. B. F. MERRITT. Princeville, Ills.