The Cheering Intelligence,
By R. F. Cottrell
FROM the tents in Maine and Michigan, contained in REVIEW No. 16, is enough to cause us to thank God and take courage. Our labor is not in vain in the Lord. His hand is with us, and will be with us when we labor with our might in his cause. The cause is destined to triumph in preparing the remnant of his people for translation, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy angels. We walk and work by faith—faith in the sure promises of the word of God. None will regret, in the day of eternity, having thrown ourselves into this work without reserve, trusting all upon faith in the promises of Him who says, "Surely I come quickly," and laboring with all our might to spread this glorious, this Heaven-sent truth. Brethren, let us engage with more ardor and zeal in the good cause. To attain everlasting salvation is worth ten thousand times ten thousand more than we can give in labor and sacrifice; and to meet with one soul in that immortal state, saved by our instrumentality, who otherwise would have been lost, will afford a theme of endless gratitude and praise to God. Let us then for the future be determined to do all we can in the cause of our Lord, so that he may say of us, as of one of old, "She hath done what she could."