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.] ABOUT seventeen months ago I came to the town of Hanford, Cal., as business agent of a renovating and upholstering company. There I met a Christian lady, who had been confined for years to an invalid chair. We talked much of the Christian life, among other things she told me that God wanted me for higher service. On my last visit she gave me a tract entitled, "How the Sabbath Came to Me," and referred me to the Hanford Sanitarium for further reading matter on the Sabbath. I went to the Sanitarium, and was deeply impressed with the truths I received there from reading various books, especially "The History of the Sabbath." But I was not willing to give up the world and my intemperate habits. For four months I tried by every argument to satisfy myself that it was not necessary to keep the Sabbath of the commandment. But God wanted me to become a worker for Him, and so permitted my intemperate habits to develop in me a condition of exceeding nervousness, which at that time was so excessive that different physicians told me I could not live long. Dr. Bond, of the Hanford Sanitarium, told me that if I did not live temperately, and seek God in earnest prayer, I could never be well. I now thank God that, as I sought Him and began to keep His commandments according to the light given, He brought health to my body and a peace to my mind which I had never known before. Eight months from the time I began to keep the Sabbath my health was fully restored. How can I but continue to do all God may show me to be my duty.
T. L. THUEMLER.