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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 16, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 11.

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CXXXVII

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.]

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HAVING been brought up a Roman Catholic, and, at an early age, feeling that God required me to withdraw from the follies of the world, I entered a monastic seminary in Montreal, Canada. During my studies it always seemed very peculiar to me that Protestants (so-called) should admit the authority of Rome so much as to keep Sunday as their day of worship instead of the Lord’s Sabbath. I must admit that it afforded me a good deal of amusement at that time, knowing, as I did, that the day was altered by the Papacy, and not by the blessed Master Himself, as some ministers are so ready to preach.
Seeing the follies and abominations of the inside workings of the Catholic Church, I prayed to God that He, in His own blessed way, would deliver me from the vows which I had taken. In the year 1892 He mercifully did deliver me, and from that time forward I did not affiliate myself with any particular organization. I have worked as an independent evangelist in many parts of Canada and the United States for the last eight years or more, but all the time bowing to the Sunday law.
During my journeyings back and forth I had heard considerable of the Seventh-day Adventists, yet there were many points of doctrine that I could not accept; in fact, I must here make the confession that I was extremely prejudiced towards them, for I really believed them to be religious fanatics. Still I admired their courage in standing out so boldly and fearlessly for the Sabbath of the Lord. It would take too long for me to speak of the way in which the Spirit of the Lord has followed me during the past few months; suffice it to say that, in December last, while attending some revival meetings in this city, an aged sister in the Lord—Sister Witherly—handed me a tract on the “Eastern Question.” After finding out where their meetings were being held, I resolved by the grace of God to attend—not from the standpoint of a critic, but to get whatever good I could from them.
I praise God, and say it to His glory, that all my prejudices fell from me at that first meeting, and I have not missed a Sabbath’s lesson since. It is now my delight to meet with God’s people, and to be taught the blessed truths revealed in His most precious Word. It is my desire to follow so closely to the Light of the world, that when He shall appear, I may, with His elect, be caught up with Him in the clouds.
(REV.) R. W. CAMPBELL.