A New Adventist’s Testimony
By E. M. Lewis
SISTER E. M. LEWIS writes from St. Law. Co., N. Y.: The last 4th of July I put myself under the watchcare of the Seventh-day Adventist church. From a child I have been among the Methodists. All my father's family belonged to the W. and M. E. church. I cannot tell how great the cross to take the step that I have taken; but feel that I must obey God. The name I always look upon of but little importance if we are truly and indeed the disciples of Jesus. I love the cause of God. Of all that profess to be Christians, how few will be saved. So many will fail by shrinking from doing their whole duty. When I look back and see how long I have been in the way, how little I have done, how little self-denial I have practiced, how little I have searched the Bible, for myself, to know if these things are so, I feel sorry that I have not had more moral courage to overcome the world, and every influence that would keep me from being wholly the Lord's. I daily feel that God does forgive the past. Grace to-day, help to-day, is what I am trying to live for. What precious words I find to those that love the truth. We lack faith. If Christ was here now in these days of peril, would he not say, Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith? Lord increase our faith. I prize the REVIEW very much for its religious instruction. I was much disappointed in our Conference Department in our last, there being so few testimonies. Every letter does me good. This precious truth, ye sinners, hear it, “Mercy's free, mercy's free.” Ye ministers of God declare it. All can speak for Jesus. May God's Spirit direct me and mine, and all his saints.