p. 219, para. 1 | Untitled article by N. J. Lucas

Untitled article

N. J. Lucas

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · September 17, 1867

SISTER N. J. LUCAS writes from Oxford Co., Maine: I have received a copy of your paper, the Advent Review, and after giving it a careful investigation, have made up my mind that it is just the paper that I want. I have been reading a book called the Sanctuary and Twenty-three hundred days of Daniel viii, 14, and was much interested in it. Have been studying my Bible considerably of late, and can find no day to be the Sabbath of the Lord except the seventh; and I feel confident that it is the one to be observed as a day of rest. But I cannot consistently believe it to be the holy Sabbath, and not keep it. Hence, by the help of the Lord, I shall try to keep it as the Lord has commanded. I have felt greatly blessed thus far in so doing. Oh! how blessed it is to have a heart willing to obey the Lord. After keeping the Sabbath I can retire with the joy and peace which springs from the assurance of having obeyed the Lord. I not only want to live out a part of God's commandments, but I want to live them all out. To me it is joy unspeakable and full of glory to believe God's word and keep his commandments. I stand alone here, there being no Sabbath-keepers very near me; and I expect much opposition, yet I can trust in that All-wise Being that said, “I will never leave nor forsake thee.” And while we are fast nearing the haven of eternal rest, let us have on the whole armor of the gospel, that we may be able to battle against the wiles of the enemy. Eph. vi, 11. Be ye also patient, establish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. James v, 8. Let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Gal. vi, 9.