A Lone Sabbath Keeper’s Testimony
By Lorinda H. Eastman
BRO. SMITH: I am still trying to make my calling and election sure, and I hope by the grace of God to come off conqueror through him that hath loved us. It is over thirty years since I started anew to be a Bible Christian; as yet, I never have been satisfied with myself, but I feel that God has been good to me and led me in a way I knew not. His word has been a lamp to my feet and a light to my path, and I feel to trust in Him. I can say, Blessed be God for his goodness to me in showing me the good and the right way; and I am determined to walk in it. It is my daily prayer that the Lord will help me to be an overcomer. About a year since I heard the sound, for many days, Get ready, get ready. I thought, Lord, what shall I do? and it has been my prayer since that time that I might live in readiness to meet the Saviour when he shall come to reign on the earth. I am the only one that keeps the Sabbath in this place, but I do not feel discouraged. If we do not keep the commandments of God we shall have no right to the tree of life, whatever; but if we suffer with him, we shall reign with him in his kingdom. I am determined to keep his commands and live a Christian life to the end; and then the promise is, We shall be saved. May the Lord help me so to live that I may be found on his right hand where I may praise God and the Lamb forever. LORINDA H. EASTMAN.
Corinth, Vt., Dec. 16, 1866.