Experiences on a Stock Range in Idaho.
By Mrs. W. Hubbell Smith
It is about thirteen months since I commenced to keep the Sabbath, and I had kept it only about a month when we moved to this ranch sixty miles from Boise City. Since then I have not seen a Sabbath-keeper. I have bought and distributed about ten dollars' worth of books and papers. I am sorry to say I do not know of any one who has obeyed the truth through the reading I have given them. But that does not discourage me for the Saviour is now waiting to give all an opportunity to choose between God's laws and the laws of men. If his glorious truth is placed in people's hands and they will not heed it they will be without excuse in that great and terrible day when “every eye shall see Him.” I gave a Bible to one family who, though members of a prominent Protestant church, were bringing up their four children without a Bible in their house! They complain that the one I gave them is an “Advent Bible;” and they say the “Advent people have changed the Bible, especially the fourth commandment.” Think of their inexcusable ignorance; for they are Americans who have for many years been professed Christians without a Bible in their house, and do not recognize the common version when it is given to them! It is not necessary in some instances to go far from home to find heathen. I am filled with wondering joy when I read of the rapid fulfilling of the words that foretell the coming of the dear Lord. The joyful certainty that he is coming makes all burdens light to bear.