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may labor for the Lord as long as He permits us to stand in our lot to
help to advance His work.
The cause needs the help of the old hands, the aged workers, who
have had many years’ experience in the cause of God; who have seen
many going into fanaticism, cherishing the delusion of false theories,
and resisting all the efforts made to let the true light shine forth in the
darkness to reveal the superstitions that were coming in to confuse
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judgment, and to make of none effect the message of truth that in these
last days must be given in its purity to the remnant people of God.
Many of the tried servants of God have fallen asleep in Jesus. We
greatly appreciate the help of those who are left alive to this day. We
value their testimony. Read the first chapter of First John, and then
praise the Lord that notwithstanding your many infirmities you can
still bear witness for Him....
Elders Smith and Loughborough
We can easily count the first burden bearers now alive [1902].
Elder [Uriah] Smith was connected with us at the beginning of the
publishing work. He labored in connection with my husband. We
hope always to see his name in the Review and Herald at the head of
the list of editors; for thus it should be. Those who began the work,
who fought bravely when the battle went so hard, must not lose their
hold now. They are to be honored by those who entered the work after
the hardest privation had been borne.
I feel very tender toward Elder Smith. My life interest in the
publishing work is bound up with his. He came to us as a young man,
possessing talents that qualified him to stand in his lot and place as an
editor. How I rejoice as I read his articles in the Review—so excellent,
so full of spiritual truth. I thank God for them. I feel a strong sympathy
for Elder Smith, and I believe that his name should always appear in
the Review as the name of the leading editor. Thus God would have it.
When, some years ago, his name was placed second, I felt hurt. When
it was again placed first, I wept, and said, “Thank God.” May it always
be there, as God designs it shall be, while Elder Smith’s right hand can
hold a pen. And when the power of his hand fails, let his sons write at
his dictation.