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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 22, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 43.

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It was in the autumn of 1860, when I was scarcely fourteen years of age, that my attention was first called to the Sabbath of the Lord and the great truths of the great threefold message of Revelation 14. If one text of Scripture above all others impressed me, it was Luke 23:54-56. I saw from this that the seventh-day Sabbath was enjoined and observed after Christ’s crucifixion. This in connection with the first verse of the following chapter clearly showed me that the day that we called Saturday was the day that Christ’s followers kept after the Lord of the Sabbath had been crucified, and that there was a commandment that required its observance then; and if then, I knew it was still required.
This, in connection with the fact that everything in the Bible was in perfect harmony with this view, made an impression on my mind that has grown and strengthened through all these years, and I have found that in the keeping of the Sabbath “there is great reward.” SMITH SHARP.
Graysville, Tenn.

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FROM a child I was brought up a Presbyterian, and taught that the seventh day was the Sabbath from creation to the crucifixion; thereafter the first day was the Sabbath, and would be to the end of the world.
A minister in Ohio, of what name or sect I know not, said in my hearing one Sunday eve, “If any one has a better religion than I have, I would like to know it.” Instantly it flashed in my mind, “If you would keep the seventh day, you would have a better.” As the thought came to mind, I saw there were two days kept for the Sabbath, whereas God had given but one, the seventh day. Assuredly that day was right, and I was wrong. As God’s Word is the revelation of the way of salvation, I determined to study the Bible to see what the Lord said in regard to the Sabbath. The more I read the more I saw the unchangeableness of His Word. In it was no word for the observance of Sunday as a sacred day. I therefore became a Sabbath-keeper, after years of keeping of the first day.
Waynesville, N. C. W. H. ARMSTRONG.