p. 72 | The Lord Hath Wrought by N. Orcutt

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Aug 1, 1865

The Lord Hath Wrought.

By N. Orcutt

"The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad." Ps. cxxvi, 3. I look back with thrilling interest and heart-felt gratitude upon the past year. God has led me in a way I knew not. A little more than a year since, I was in darkness respecting the nature and obligation of his law, trampling, through ignorance, upon his commandments. With mind beclouded by prejudice, and my whole being stupefied and beclouded by the excessive use of tobacco, I wonder not that I was unable to see the light of truth. But God working in a mysterious way, has dispelled that prejudice, and by his assisting grace, after a struggle of months, sometimes sick, but never doubting but that he would enable me to overcome, nature is beginning to rally, and I feel in a good degree that I am free, and can rejoice in God that he is giving me the victory over the filthy and depraving habit.

I have now no desire to ignore the existence of the Sabbath of the Lord; but find it a delight, a day of rest—sweet invigorating rest, both to body and mind. I can say with the Psalmist, "Oh how love I thy law." I am striving to make that immutable rule of right the rule of my life, to love God more, proving that I love him by keeping his commandments. I would daily grow in grace, the language of my heart being, "Nearer my God to thee, nearer to thee." When the angels are commissioned to gather the faithful, I would be numbered with them—pure, holy, to be holy still; to join in that shout that shall make the heavenly arches ring, "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." N. ORCUTT.