From Bro. Adams: Returning to the Sabbath
By T. E. Adams
I wish to say to the readers of the Review that, through God’s mercy and long forbearance, we have been enabled to discover our weakness and folly in opposing his holy law by breaking his commandments and teaching others to do so, “worshiping and serving the creature instead of the Creator.” Now we rejoice in God our Saviour who hath enabled us to overcome our opposition to him and his law, and to turn from idols to serve the living and true God, and wait for his Son from Heaven. Now we are trying to retain God, in our knowledge by resting from worldly toil as he rested the seventh day from all his works. My mind has been unsettled at times, touching the Sabbath question, for eight or ten years, ever since I heard Eld. Waggoner in Tipton Co., Ind., who almost convinced me of my error, and persuaded me to keep the commandments, I like thousands of others, was not willing to cut loose from the world, give up all, and follow Jesus through tribulation and persecution. The change seemed too great. “The carnal mind is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” So I resorted to the Sunday Sabbath for safety; and when it would fail, then to the no-Sabbath pleasure boat, which sails into, and out of, Sunday to suit the times. So I toiled on, beating my way up stream, halting at intervals when beckoned by friends who plead for the old paths and my good, until last fall when we attended the Kansas Camp-meeting where we saw and heard for ourselves those who plead in unison for the Lord’s Sabbath. Returning home with a bundle of books I resolved to read and decide permanently for or against the Sabbath, selecting that day to investigate its claims on. I rejoice to say that after one or two days’ faithful searching, I resolved to throw my doubts to the winds and keep the Lord’s Sabbath; man-despised, but God-honored institution! Only a few weeks later my dear mother and sister living in Missouri, by reading and reflecting, decided to keep the Lord’s Sabbath, and my other sister, living in Indiana, began to keep the Sabbath about the same time. These were sources of great consolation to me, to know that God had given me those near and dear to me, who were willing to “suffer affliction with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.”