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.] In the summer of 1882 a Seventh-day Adventist minister, named J. G. Wood, came to Gunn City, three miles from our country home. He preached there for six weeks, and from the first night we became interested. The more we went the more we wanted to go. Some nights would be so dark that we would have to let the horses have the lines going through a narrow, crooked timber road, and up and down steep banks in crossing a creek. But they took us through safely every night. I remember one night, as we were on our way to meeting, Brother Henry Hoover, a neighbor, said, "We will hear on the law to-night." I wished to myself that he would not speak on that subject, for everything else had been made so plain that I was sure that subject would be made plain, too, and I would have to believe it. I wished that we might be left in ignorance on that point, as I had been fighting against it. But by this time my husband had become so much interested that he had begun to argue the Sabbath question, saying that these things were true, and that the seventh day was binding. I said that if we keep one-seventh part of the time, that is all that God requires of us. I worked hard with him, and at times I could get him to doubt; but hearing another sermon would stir him again, and then I would have to work with him further. The last time I had him nearly ready to let all go, that night I had a dream which gave me considerable anxiety. The next day a Baptist lady visited us, and I told her of my dream. She said it was a warning to me to let my husband alone. She knew that he had been an infidel, and also knew that I was against his keeping the seventh day. That night the Sabbath question was brought up in full, and the minister read from Catholic works that the Catholic Church had made the change, and that she had no Bible authority for it; that neither Christ nor the apostles had anything to do with it. That ever settled the question for me; my husband and I kept the next seventh day together. We rejoiced in the truth, and still rejoice, praise the Lord, for His wondrous works in a wondrous way.
AMY KIVETT.