Sister Rhodes Testimony on Sabbath and Humility
Sister Julia A. Rhodes writes from Riley Center, Mich.:—I confess to the world that I have broken God’s commandments; but henceforth while I live, God helping me, I will keep holy the Sabbath day, and observe all his holy laws, that I may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. We read in Isa. 58: 13, 14, that “the mouth of the Lord has spoken” a blessing for them that keep his holy day. Who will dare to say they cannot understand the Sabbath is binding, when the word of God is so plain? O Truth! thou art a jewel! Truth loses in no conflict; suffers from no misusage or abuse, and retains its vitality and strength after every assault. It is the power in which the feeble are mighty; the strength in which the weak grow strong. The first time I ever saw the washing of feet and took a part, was at Memphis. I looked back to the time when the Lord was here, when he girded himself with a towel, and washed his disciples’ feet. Oh! what an example of humility is this! If ye know these things, said he, happy are ye if ye do them. May the Lord help us to do all his will; then shall we have his Holy Spirit with us in power.