Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

September 20, 1860, died December 14 of the same year. When that tender branch wasbroken, how our hearts did bleed none may know but those who have followed theirlittle ones of promise to the grave.But oh, when our noble Henry died, [The death of Henry N. White occurred attopsham, Maine, December 8, 1863.] at the age of sixteen; when our sweet singer wasborne to the grave, and we no more heard his early song, ours was a lonely home. Bothparents and the two remaining sons felt the blow most keenly. But God comforted us inour bereavements, and with faith and courage we pressed forward in the work He hadgiven us, in bright hope of meeting our children who had been torn from us by death,in that world where sickness and death will never come.In August, 1865, my husband was suddenly stricken down by paralysis. This was aheavy blow, not only to myself and my children, but to the cause of God. The churcheswere deprived both of my husband’s labors and of my own. Satan triumphed as he sawthe work of truth thus hindered. But, thank God! he was not permitted to destroy us.After being cut off from all active labor for fifteen months, we ventured out once moretogether to work among the churches.Having become fully satisfied that my husband would not recover from hisprotracted sickness while remaining inactive, and that the time had fully come for meto go forth and bear my testimony to the people, I decided to make a tour in northernMichigan, with my husband in his extremely feeble condition, in the severest cold ofwinter. It required no small degree of moral courage and faith in God to bring my mindto the decision to risk so much; but I knew that I had a work to do, and it seemed to methat Satan was determined to keep me from it. I had waited long for our captivity to beturned, and feared that precious103