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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Aug 29, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 26, No. 13.

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JULIA E. GREEN

By Julia E. Green

From Sister Green.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I desire once more to throw in my testimony on the Lord's side, and to express my gratitude for the many blessings I enjoy. I feel to rejoice that my lot has been cast in these last days, and that I have heard the third angel's message, and have the privilege of being numbered with God's remnant people. I desire to walk worthy of the name of Christ, and to be kept from bringing any reproach upon it. I feel the need of constant watchfulness and prayerfulness, for the enemy is ever nigh, trying to make me fall; but I rejoice that I have an interest in that blood that was shed on Calvary, that I can plead the promises of my Father, and find help and strength in the hour of temptation. Sometimes when the enemy comes in like a flood and nearly overwhelms me, I cast my mind forward to the time when God's people shall stand pure and spotless before his throne, and I long so much to be one of that happy company, that I am nerved to struggle earnestly for the victory, and I can truly say I am never disappointed when I rely upon God for overcoming grace.
Again, when I look at my present sinful condition, and compare it with what I must be in order to inherit eternal life, it seems almost too much to believe that I shall ever gain it. But, thank the Lord, the change is not to be made at once in our own strength, but day after day, little by little, we are to make preparations for the last glorious change, and I trust the Lord to bring even me off conqueror. When I see the signs of the advent thickening around us, I almost wonder how any can disbelieve, or be indifferent to them; and I long to tell everybody of the awful things soon coming on the earth, and urge them to seek a preparation for the great and terrible day of the Lord. It is my intention to try so to live that my light may shine, that I may rid myself of the blood of all my neighbors and friends, that I may at last rejoice with all the scattered and tried ones throughout a happy eternity.

JULIA E. GREEN

Hebron, Wis.