D. R. LEIGHTON by D. R. Leighton

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 29, 1869

D. R. LEIGHTON

By D. R. Leighton

From Bro. Leighton.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I have been a reader of the REVIEW about ten years, but have been a Sabbath-keeper not quite a year, and having been cheered and encouraged by reading the letters from the brethren and sisters, I thought a letter from me might be the means of encouraging some one to struggle on in his good way. I commenced to keep the Sabbath last June through the immediate influence of our dear Bro. and Sister Canright. Never shall I forget the few weeks they spent at my house. It was by their consistent and godly course that I was led to commence to keep the Sabbath, although convinced for some time that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord. We miss these dear servants of God. Their memory is sweet. They have a large place in our hearts. If we never meet again on this earth, may we meet them in the earth made new. I would say to the lonely and scattered ones, Be of good cheer. Jesus is soon coming, and then he will reward all the faithful. Since I commenced to keep the Sabbath, my path has been strewn with losses, disappointments, and trouble of different kinds; but God is good. I think he has been with me all the way. I think I have needed all these things to wean my affections from this world. I want to be willing to lose all that this world can afford for the sake of a home in Heaven. Dear brethren and sisters, let us press on. The battle will wax hotter to the end. Pray for me, that I may hold out to the end of the journey.

D. R. LEIGHTON

New Haven, May 30, 1869.