ONE BLESSED THOUGHT by A. S. Hutchins

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 27, 1879

ONE BLESSED THOUGHT.

By A. S. Hutchins

Some time ago, while in conversation with an aged brother who has been a conscientious observer of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment for years, he remarked, “I have one thing to be thankful for, that is, I have not seen one dark hour since I embraced the Sabbath.” Precious testimony!

This man had been a deacon of the Congregationalist Church some fifty years; but living amidst Sabbath-keepers, his attention was called to the subject, which he, with his companion, gave a careful and prayerful examination, resulting in firmly settling each one in the Scriptural truth, that the seventh day is the Sabbath.

Many who have given this subject a candid investigation have settled the question in their minds in favor of the Bible Sabbath, who have not taken up the cross of keeping it. May there not be a large number of this class who could not say, I have not seen a dark hour since rejecting the light?

Light shines upon our pathway that we may be benefited by it. 1. That we may confess it; 2. That we may obey it, and rejoice in it, and thereby let it shine upon others; and 3. That we may be saved by obedience to it.

A. S. HUTCHINS.