Testimonies for the Church Vol 1 - Lansing SDA Church

650 Testimonies for the Church Volume 1[711][712]thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the lawand the prophets.”The above was written at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, October 4, 1867.I could not find time to finish the testimony and copy it, so laid itby, and did not have time to finish it until I returned from the East toGreenville, Michigan, when I took it in hand, January 30, 1868.Dear Brother and Sister D: You should have had this long ago, butour labors have been so hard that I could not possibly get the time towrite. Every place that we visited brought before my mind much thatI had been shown of individual cases, and I have written in meeting,even while my husband was preaching.The vision was given me about two years ago. The enemy hashindered me in every way he could to keep souls from having the lightwhich God had given me for them. First, my husband’s case was soperplexing, so distressing, that I could not write. Then the discouragementsbrought upon me by my brethren kept me in a condition ofsadness and distress, unfitting me for labor of any description. Whenwe started to travel last summer, I commenced to write, but we havetraveled from place to place so rapidly that all we could do was toattend the meetings. There was much work to be done. I practice risingat four o’clock in the morning, to take hold of my writing. Yet constant,exciting labor in meeting so taxes the brain that I am unprepared forwriting, my head is so weary.I regret that you could not have had this before, but even now mayGod make it a blessing to you, is my sincere prayer. You, my dearbrother, may have seen these things and corrected them ere this. Ihope so, at least. You and also your wife have our sympathy andprayers. We have an interest for her as well as for yourself. Her soul isprecious. We beseech her in Christ’s stead to seek for a meek and quietspirit, which in the sight of God is of great price. An angel pointedme to Sister D and repeated these words: “Whatsoever things are true,whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoeverthings are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things areof good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, thinkon these things.” Here is the healthful train of thought for the mind tofollow. When it would go in a different channel, bring it back. Controlthe mind. Educate it to dwell only on those things which bring peaceand love.