A Bible-Loving Sister’s Testimony
By MARIA JONES
THE more I read the Bible, the better I love it. There are many, many things I cannot comprehend, but I will not condemn all because I do not understand a part. The young lady I am boarding with, and I, have been taking a subject a day, and searching the Scriptures for light on it. We are gaining knowledge this way. We are trying to do the best we can. I believe the Advent doctrine. I have heard much preaching and wrangling over the Scriptures, yet no light came to my mind, until I heard Elders Waggoner and Van Horn. They sowed the good seed in the minds of many while in Bowersville, and the parable of Christ has been well illustrated. I have not been to Bowersville to meeting for three months. I still am trying to keep the Sabbath. I will not look back nor forward. Now is all the time I have; and oh, that I realized the important truths more than I do. I resolve, and resolve, and break those resolves often, for I am an erring mortal. But I cannot forget to “try again.” I do not wish to; and if, in the end, I do fail, to know that I have tried, will mitigate my grief somewhat. I believe in the health reform, have, in fact, always, but have not lived up to it as reason demanded, and do not now as I ought, but feel the benefit of this way of living. I do not wear the reform dress; neither do I follow in the footsteps of tyrant Fashion. I dress to please myself, and this never makes me sick, nor inconveniences me. I like the REVIEW, and wish it success. I read the numerous letters and articles in it last week, and was instructed and edified by so doing. Hoping for the success of the Advent cause, and with love to all.
MARIA JONES.
Greene Co., Ohio.