increased zeal and effort we may exhort one another to
faithfulness.... Give up our faith? lose our confidence?
become impatient? No, no. We will not think of such a
thing.... See how the specifications of the prophecies have
been and are fulfilling. Let us lift up our heads and rejoice,
for our redemption draweth nigh. It is nearer than when we
first believed. Shall we not wait patiently, filled with courage
and faith? Shall we not make ready a people to stand in the
day of final reckoning?—The Review and Herald, July 31,
1888 quoted in That I May Know Him, 348.
His Promise Gives Courage—More than eigh