p. 79 | G. G. DUNHAM by G. G. Dunham

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 3, 1863

G. G. DUNHAM

By G. G. Dunham

From Bro. Dunham.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: The Lord in his goodness and mercy has spared us to behold the dawning of the new year; and now as we commence the new year with new desires and with heavenly aspirations, let us not once turn and look back, but ever follow after that which will be pleasing to Him who has spared and kept us. To me the way is bright and cheering, and I do truly want the Spirit of Christ that I may be his at his coming. I want to forget those things which are behind, and reach forth unto those things which are before, and have every battle a certain victory.

The truth of God certainly has power to keep us if we live it out. O, while we have such clear light beaming from the word of God, let us claim his promises and live so as to realize them in the glorious future, when our vile bodies shall be fashioned like unto his glorious body, and we shall bask in the light of God's countenance in the heavenly city. We can none of us have any objection to Christ's coming if we are truly strangers and pilgrims here; for this seems to me to be the grand center around which our thoughts should cluster. It is the one thing we should desire above all others. The cloud of witnesses is daily increasing. The gigantic strides of Spiritualism, and the stir of late among the devotees of orthodoxy, show that we are surely soon to pass through the time of trouble. But we know that through faith we can bear all things, the Lord also being our helper.

G. G. DUNHAM

Eaton Rapids, Mich.