A Testimony of Present Truth
By L. E. Millne
DEAR BRN. AND SISTERS : Some time has elapsed, since you have heard from me; but my love for the present truth has not abated. I feel to thank the Lord every day that I ever heard these precious truths. As I read your cheering testimonies my heart is made to rejoice that I too indulge the same blessed hope and have the privilege of being numbered with the remnant people of God who keep the commandments and have the testimony of Jesus. How it cheers and gladdens my heart to think that Jesus is soon coming to take his weary children home. Blessed thought! Yes, home to those glorious mansions which he has gone to prepare for those that love his appearing. Oh, the way is so delightful in the service of the Lord. He is as the shadow of a great rock in this weary land to my afflicted heart. I can count all things but loss that I might win Christ. Of late I have realized in some measure the ire of the dragon who has come down in great wrath knowing that his time is short. Oh, how he is seeking to distract and scatter the little flock. But when the enemy comes in like a flood the Lord will lift up a standard against him. Our dear Bro. R. F. Andrews has been with us again, and his coming was like the coming of Titus to refresh our tried souls. It was truly meat in due season. He gave a few lectures where he did last summer, and two commenced keeping the Sabbath. He then commenced meetings in our village having a large and attentive congregation. The Lord was with him, and the word spoken was attended with the power and demonstration of the Spirit, and several have decided to go with us to Mt. Zion. Quite a large number confessed that this was the truth, but are not prepared to take up the cross and follow our blessed Saviour through evil as well as good report. Oh that the Lord would give them courage to face a frowning world. The scorn and reproach of this world will deter many from entering the promised land; but dear brethren and sisters, "Let us never mind the scoffs nor the frowns of the world,
For we've all got the cross to bear,
It will only make the crown the brighter to shine,
When we have the crown to wear."
The glories of that heavenly land have ravished my heart and oh we soon shall be there. Then farewell to sighs and tears. There all sorrow and sighing will flee away and there will be joy and fullness of joy at God's right hand. Oh let us be faithful and endure unto the end and then receive the robes, the palms and the crowns. Who of us would fall of eternal life. Here is my heart and here is my hand to meet you in that heavenly land. Shabbona, Ills. Feb. 15, 1865.