How They Became Convinced
By Editor
[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.] THO the son of non-church-going parents, and without religious instruction to speak of, yet I had great reverence for the Bible. I fully believed that the God whom it revealed was a sin-pardoning God, able to relieve me at any time of the weight of the burden of sin which seemed to increase with the passing years. In early childhood mother had taught me to pray, and the influence of this never left me. Finally, in 1888, when twenty-three years of age, some tent meetings were begun near our home. I attended, and for the first time the wonders and the value of the prophetic parts of the Bible came forcibly to my mind. I saw that the Sabbath truth for the last days was a matter of prophecy. The law of God was unchangeable, and the seventh-day Sabbath of Jehovah was in the very heart of it—a sign between God and His people. Eze. 20 : 12, 20. I saw that it was a test for the last generation of men. Principles of righteousness were at stake. The Scriptures were convincing. Historical evidence corroborated the prophetic utterances of Dan. 7 : 25 that a power was to arise and think to change the law and the holy time. Revelation 13 and 14 were beacon lights to me. I understood from the first. My mind had not been previously filled with errors; it was free to receive the truths of God's Word. I acknowledged all, but did not immediately obey. "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." Rest was what I longed for, was what I needed. After procrastination for a time, I yielded to that "true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world," and became obedient. O, what a burden rolled off! His strength was sufficient, His love abundant, His promises sure. So in Christ, commandment-keeping became what it was ever intended to be—rest, eternal rest, to the penitent, weary, sin-sick soul.
JOHN S. WIGHTMAN. PERHAPS some one would be interested to know how the Sabbath came to me and my little daughter. Less than two years ago, while living in Illinois, Brother J. P. Henderson, of Indiana, came to our town and held a series of meetings. I had never seen a Seventh-day Adventist, nor did I know that the seventh day was the Sabbath. I did not belong to any church, nor did I attend church very often; but, for some reason, I know not what, I went to these lectures, and became very much interested, especially in the Sabbath. Gladys was a child of but ten years, but she understood as well as I did that we were keeping the wrong day. So we made the change right then, and have kept the Sabbath of the Lord ever since.
ALMA MCCORMICK.