JOSIAH COLLIER by Josiah Collier

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1868

JOSIAH COLLIER

By Josiah Collier

From Bro. Collier.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: It is now eleven months since I made a start to keep the Lord's Sabbath, and I never enjoyed so great peace of mind as I do now. I always wanted to be honest. I belonged to the German Reformed church. I knew I was not keeping the seventh day; but thought, as many others do, that it made no difference what day I kept. Bro. Phillips, of McConnel's Grove, gave me a number of tracts to read, and then I went to searching the Scriptures, and the Lord opened my eyes, for which I bless his name, and I saw that I had been breaking one of his commandments all my days. Oh! what a cross it was then to come out from the world; but the Lord gave me grace, and I did come out and make a new start for the kingdom. I never did believe in the trinity, nor that sprinkling and pouring were baptism; and I could hardly believe that my Heavenly Father would keep some of his creatures alive in a lake of fire forever and ever, though they were disobedient. I am now fully persuaded that he will not. I am now living in a neighborhood where there are no others of like faith. I receive the ADVENT REVIEW from Battle Creek, through the kindness of the brethren and sisters at McConnel's Grove. May the Lord bless them. I love the REVIEW. It is the best paper I can get. I try to read it all through each Sabbath. I am determined, by the grace of the Lord, to overcome all sin; and I entreat of you all to strive earnestly for that inheritance in the earth made new. We are looking for the coming of our Lord and Saviour. May none turn back into sin and folly, is my prayer.

JOSIAH COLLIER

Stephenson Co., Ill.