The Truth Will Prevail.
By D. F. Quinby
BRO. SMITH: At the camp-meeting of S. D. Adventists at Battle Creek, last September, you will recollect giving to a stranger some treatises on the Sabbath question, with a request that they should be carefully read, and that you might be notified of the effects their perusal might produce. At that time, I little thought that those few tracts had aught to do with my future; that they would influence my whole heart, and have an influence upon my whole life, yea, and my everlasting71life in the future state. But at present, my convictions are that in the future to which God shall introduce me, my praises will ever be poured out to the great Head of the church, that he led me in a way that I knew not, and in paths I had not seen. Many times in the past I have said that the seventh day was God's Sabbath, but until the reading of those books it was not brought home to my conscience as it now is. Now I feel that the law is holy and the commandment holy, and just, and good, and in keeping the law there is great reward. It has been a hard struggle to bring myself up to the point and declare my determination to keep God's own day in the future. But my resolve is made; and my vow is recorded; and from this hour, I will “observe to do all the commandments of the Lord,” and I have hope of keeping the Sabbaths of the new heavens and new earth, with Isaiah. Isa. 66:22, 23. I thank you for presenting those tracts and books, and am thankful to God for leading me into truth. “The truth shall make you free,” said Jesus; and I am certain it has given me great freedom, and, at the same time, I am filled with peace and joy. Now I know that in keeping his testimonies there is great reward. I love all who love our Lord in sincerity and truth; and my prayer is that God will guide me and all my friends into all truth. “Great peace have they that love thy law.” How true in my own case! Pray for me that I may be purified, and then be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Yours in Christian bonds,
D. F. QUINBY.