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in The Gospel Messenger vol.4 no.2 (Feb. 1882)
AUTHOR: | Mitchell, William M. |
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ON LAST SUNDAY (December 24th) we preached the first
discourse we had been able to preach for seventy days—or ten
weeks. The greater part of that time we were in extreme sufferings,
and often excruciating torture. During the greater part of
our ministerial life it has been our lot to suffer. None but the
God of heaven knows, or ever will know, how much bodily pain
we have endured, even when we were preaching to the people
the unsearchable riches of Christ.
Often, too, have we felt to be “pressed out of measure,
above strength, so that we despaired even of life.” But God has
had mercy, and still sustained us, even in the furnace; and were
it not that we know that the Lord has said, “His fire is in Zion
and his furnace in Jerusalem,” we should long since have despaired
of being a citizen of that holy city. But when we know
that the Lord doth ‘sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and
He shall purify the sons of Levi (or the spiritual priesthood),
and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer an offering
unto the Lord in righteousness,’ there is hope still that
these afflictions are in the end to work for our good and for
God’s glory. |
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