H. F. BAKER by H. F. Baker

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 31, 1865

H. F. BAKER

By H. F. Baker

From Bro. Baker.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS : It is some time since I have taken my pen to address you through the Review, although I have myself derived much cheer and comfort from your words of experience and encouragement; but I feel that now I have a new bond of sympathy with many of you, in the loss of my own dear companion, and will make free to speak out.

She was taken from us, after a short illness of four days. She died with her mind clear and unclouded unto the end; and oh! what strength and comfort we found in our holy religion in that trying hour. She found that

“Jesus can make a dying bed, Feel soft as downy pillows are.”

The burden of her prayer was, “Come, Lord Jesus; come quickly,” which I too can repeat with an interest and love for his appearing, it seems I never felt before. What cheer in the “Blessed hope!” How it consoles and binds up the broken hearted! Praise the Lord, for his goodness in revealing to us the way of life. Says the Holy One, “I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live again.”

With a greater interest in “His appearing and kingdom,” I am striving to make my way on, and endure unto the end. Brethren and sisters, pray for me, and my three motherless children, that the “God of all comfort and consolation” will guide us to his praise; and finally gather us, an unbroken circle, into his everlasting kingdom.

H. F. BAKER

Fremont, O.