Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

God, to devote their lives to His glory! In your
anxiety for your children you pleaded with God to
return them to you again, and you would seek more
earnestly to lead them in the path of holiness. You
thought you would labor more faithfully than you
had ever done.
The Lord suffered you to be schooled in
adversity and affliction, that you might obtain an
experience which would be valuable to yourself
and others. In the days of your poverty and trial
you loved the Lord, and you loved religious
privileges. The nearness of Christ's coming was
your consolation. It was a living hope to you that
you would soon find rest from labor, and the end of
all your trials; when you would find that you had
not labored nor suffered too much; for the apostle
Paul declares: "Our light affliction, which is but for
a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and
eternal weight of glory."
To meet with the people of God seemed to you
almost like visiting heaven. Obstacles did not deter
you. You could suffer weariness and hunger for
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