A Letter from Elder W. C. White

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DURING THE LAST WEEK MOTHER HAS BEEN SITTING UP THREE OR FOUR HOURS EACH DAY. THE DOCTORS SAY THAT SHE IS HOLDING UP REMARKABLY, CONSIDERING HER AGE.

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Last Wednesday (March 3) she said to Brother Crisler, «I need the prayers of all God’s people.» To her nurse she said, «Jesus is my blessed Redeemer, and I love him with my whole being.»

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Today, in talking with Brother Crisler, she said: «My courage is grounded in my Saviour. I want that peace that abounds in Christ Jesus. My work is nearly ended. Looking over the past, I do not feel the least mite of despondency or discouragement. I feel so grateful that the Lord has withheld me from despair and discouragement, and that I can still hold the banner. I am very grateful that this is so. I know him whom I love, and in whom my soul trusteth.»

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Speaking of death, she said, «I feel, the sooner the better; all the time that is how I feel-the sooner the better. I have not a discouraging thought, nor sadness. I have hoped I should be able once more to speak to the people; but that is the Lord’s business, not mine. I have light and faith and hope and courage and joy in the Lord, and that is enough. The Lord understands what I can endure, and he has given me grace to bear up under the discouragements that I have sometimes had to bear, and I feel thankful for this. I have nothing of which to complain; I thank the Lord for all his goodness, all his mercy, all his love.»

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Pointing to and handling some of her books, she continued: «I appreciate these books as I never did before. They are truth, and they are righteousness, everlasting testimony that God is true.

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«Let the Lord take his way and do his work with me, so that I am refined and purified; and that is all I desire. I know my work is done; it is of no use to say anything else. I shall rejoice, when my time comes, that I am permitted to lie down to rest in peace. I have no desire that my life shall be prolonged.»

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Following a prayer by Brother Crisler, she prayed: «Heavenly Father, I come to thee, weak, like a broken reed, yet by the Holy Spirit’s vindication of righteousness and truth that shall prevail. I thank thee, Lord, I thank thee, and I will not draw away from anything that thou wouldst give me to bear. Let thy light, let thy joy and grace, be upon me in my last hours, that I may glorify thee, is my great desire; and this is all that I shall ask of thee. Amen.»

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Following the prayer: «I did not know how it would be in the last, the very last, on account of the affliction. But I find that I can lean my whole weight on the promises of God; and I do not at all doubt or question his wisdom in any way. He has provided for me to be carried through; and I shall rejoice just as long as I have tongue and voice.» W. C. White.