[Believing it would be of interest to our readers, the editor of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES has asked Sabbath-keeping ministers and evangelical workers to tell in a few words the scripture or scriptures, the truths and principles, which constrained them to accept the unpopular truth of the seventh-day Sabbath. These testimonies must not exceed 500 words. Let us hear from all.]
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I was born and brought up in the Lutheran Church in Denmark, where I also had my first Christian experience. At the age of twenty-one I was baptized, and united with the Baptist Church, which at that time always wanted a “Thus saith the Lord” for their preaching and practise.
Some years after coming to this country the Sabbath question came up in the church of which I was pastor. Some of my members had investigated the subject, and began to advocate the observance of the seventh day; while others believed that, as Christians, we were not commanded to keep any day. I, with the majority, believed that the first day of the week was the Christian Sabbath, and this I would endeavor to prove. Thus I was led to a careful and prayerful investigation of the Sabbath question, under which I was convinced that the commandment unquestionably meant the day that God Himself rested upon, blessed, and sanctified; and that the fourth commandment must be just as binding upon Christians as the first, second, and third, or any other in the Decalogue. This kept coming to me with such force that I could not honestly resist. For thirty-one years I have kept and preached the Sabbath, rejoicing in the Lord. J. C. NIELSEN.
