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An Acknowledgment

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 1, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 3.

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An Acknowledgment.

By D. D. Stevens

I WISH to acknowledge the goodness of God in showing me his truth. For surely he hath “brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock.”
About one year ago, while a spiritualist, talking with Bro. J. Dorcas on the state of the dead,” I was convinced that there is no sound evidence that the soul can exist after death, as natural immortality is the foundation which spiritualism rests upon. I gave up my belief in the seven spheres of progressive development, and the whole calculation of spiritualism fell to naught in my estimation. I was then without belief or hope of anything beyond the present life.
About this time I became much interested in reading Eld. White’s articles on Bible Hygiene in Health Reformer. This led me to take up my long-neglected Bible, and with the aid of books, tracts, pamphlets, and the REVIEW, began to investigate; because convinced that “the dead know not any thing;” that the seventh-day Sabbath is God’s memorial, and for the last nine months, have tried to keep all the commandments of God, and hope for eternal life through Christ our Saviour. D. D. STEVENS. Cedar Co., Iowa.