Chapter 26—Assurance to Those Facing Death
Messages of Comfort to a Daughter-in-Law Suffering Affliction
[
Mary Kelsey White, the wife of Wm. C. White, and thus a
daughter-in-law of Mrs. White, was from her very girlhood an earnest
and talented worker in the Review and Herald, the Pacific Press, and
our publishing house in Basel, Switzerland. She contracted
tuberculosis while in Europe, and after an illness of three years died at
Boulder, Colorado, at the age of thirty-three. Presented here are
excerpts from messages written to her during the last year of this
illness.—Compilers
.]
Battle Creek, Michigan
November 4, 1889
Dear Daughter Mary,
We do not cease to pray for you, my dear child, and the goodness
and mercy of God is so clear and distinct to me that every time I pray
it seems as though the Saviour had you in His own arms and that you
were reposing there. I have faith in your case. I do believe that the
Lord has heard prayer in your behalf, and that He will work for your
good and His own name’s glory. He has said, “Ask what ye will, and
it shall be done unto you” (
John 15:7
). “Whatsoever ye shall ask in
prayer, believing, ye shall receive” (
Matthew 21:22
).
I know that stormy times are before us, and we must know how to
trust, how to lay hold on the Source of our strength. The Lord is good
to those who trust in Him, and they shall not be overcome. I think of
the words of the prophet in your case, “Why art thou cast down, O my
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soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope in God: for I shall
yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God”
(
Psalm 43:5
).
Mary, repose in God. Wait patiently for the Lord. He will be to
you a present help in every time of need. The Lord is good. Praise
His Holy name. God loves to have us trust Him, loves to have us
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