PROFITABLE READING by Albert Stone

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 26, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 9

PROFITABLE READING.

By Albert Stone

BY ELD. ALBERT STONE.

I WISH to say to the brethren and sisters that I am in sympathy with the plan of simultaneous reading that has been recommended in the REVIEW; and though circumstances are not favorable to my entering into it in all respects according to the plan proposed, yet I am with much interest giving my personal attention to the reading and prayerful study of the books among us which are the result of the spirit of prophecy.

I have been familiar with most of them in the past, and have been blessed in their perusal; yet I wish to speak of the result, thus far, of my present reading. This commenced in November. Feeling that I needed a closer walk with God, my interest soon became intense. I was convicted that my spiritual condition was precisely that of the Laodicean church, brought to view in Rev. 3:14-17. My anguish of spirit was very great, hardly surpassed by that which I experienced sixty-four years ago when the Lord, by his Spirit, laid before me my lost and undone condition as a sinner. I involuntarily exclaimed, “What have I done for my Lord?” The religion of my past life appeared thin and vapory. I realized that with my present ratio of advancement, I should never reach Heaven. The Lord heard prayer, and came to me with a measure of relief and comfort, for which I bless and praise his holy name.

In view of what the Lord has wrought for me through the Testimonies, first and last, I bless his holy name.

Eden Mills, Vermont, Feb. 9.