p. 86 | The Right Way Found

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 27, 1872

The Right Way Found.

[We are rejoiced to receive the following communication from one who, after a careful examination of various views, is convinced that the position of S. D. Adventists is in the main in accordance with the infallible word of God, and that he cannot hope to evade the commandments of God and have eternal life. We trust he will not long be alone in his neighborhood, rejoicing in the advancing light of present truth.]

DEAR BRETHREN: I think I speak my true sentiments when I say I am thankful to God that some kind friend sent me the REVIEW AND HERALD. At first, I scarcely read it, and when I did, it was with prejudice. I then read it to find out what I supposed to be weak points, and determined to answer them to my satisfaction, as I went along. I have been in the habit for many years of reviewing in writing, for my own reading and diversion, various theological views.

Your paper suggested thoughts which I followed out from the Bible and other helps. I was soon astonished at the firmness and reasonableness of the positions, and chided myself at my ignorance that I was not able to set aside what I supposed to be fallacy. You may think I have become interested in a paper, in a doctrine, because I am not acquainted with any other, and have fallen in with it on account of the novelty. This is not the fact. I have been twenty years reading and studying theology, as a layman and local preacher in the M. E. church. I have carefully weighed with much research the doctrines of Universalism and Spiritism, and have investigated the points of difference between the churches. I read the Baptist Examiner, Christian Union, North-Western Christian Advocate, Times, and the Crisis. I have also read largely of infidel writings. After a careful study, I am convinced that the doctrines in the main advocated by your paper are the teachings of the Holy Writings, and feel constrained, to write you. Perhaps my “countenance” will sharpen yours. It might give you a little help that one, though weak and unknown, was about determined to cast his lot with yours. I realize the detriment it will be to my worldly prospects to keep the commandments, but I cannot hope to evade them and have eternal life. There are none in all this country, so far as I know, of like faith.

Yours in hope of life through Jesus our Lord and Saviour. DR. E. TUCKER. Mecosta Co., Mich.