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Daughters of God
and seek meekness, seek righteousness. I believe that God will yet
be gracious unto you, if you turn to Him with your whole heart, and
make it your first and primary business to learn of Christ. Learn how
to serve Him. Study the Bible, beseeching God to enlighten your mind
to understand its sacred teachings, which you have so long neglected
and despised. Turn your attention to the words of life. “Search the
scriptures.”
All your life long your heart has been in rebellion against God.
You have trampled upon His offered mercy, choosing the pleasing
things of the world and the service of Satan rather than the service of
Christ. Yet Jesus in unbounded mercy still invites you to choose Him
as your Saviour and become a child of God, an heir of glory. You can
choose life and salvation if you will, or you can choose to worship self
and devote your precious hours of probation to making your person
attractive to please the eye of the worldling and the sensualist, to
receive flattery from lying lips, and at last reap that harvest which
you have been sowing—corruption. The poor mortal body which has
been your idol, your god, will be cut down like the grass and wither as
the green herb. Oh, Maria, how heartsick it has made me to see your
mind almost wholly taken up with your own person, your dress, your
appearance. Your mind seemed to be on a constant stretch to improve
your appearance.
The Word of God exhorts us to study to show ourselves approved
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unto God. How much has this important lesson been studied? You
have coveted the approval and the praise of those who are lovers of
pleasure and the enemies of God while you have had no elevated
desires and determination of purpose to seek, above everything else,
to show yourself approved unto God. [It is] He who grants you life
and every good thing which you have enjoyed.
I leave these hastily written lines with you, praying that they may
do you good. Again I beseech you to make a business of seeking
the Lord. Pray much. Weep and pray. Humble yourself before God,
relying alone upon the merits of a crucified and risen Saviour, One who
maketh intercessions for just such sin-polluted souls as yours. If others
do not help you as you think they ought to, do not be discouraged.
With you it is a case of life or death. Angels of God are watching with
interest to see whether you will be overcome by Satan, or [whether
you] yourself [will] be an overcomer and through the efficacy of the