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.] I WAS brought up on the east side of the Bay of Wigton, nearly opposite the point where Margaret Wilson and her two companions were tied to stakes when the tide was out, and drowned when it came in, because they would not conform to the practises of the Church of England, in the reign of Charles the Second. My father was an earnest man and my mother a devoted Christian. When I was about fourteen one of my sisters said she thought the teaching of the United Presbyterian Church was nearly right, except on the subject of baptism. I never had heard it questioned, nor had I ever met a Baptist, but she saw that John was baptizing at Enon “because there was much water there,” and that the Lord did not go to Jordan to be sprinkled, altho we knew nothing of the meaning of the word “baptize.” Some sixteen years afterwards, when whip-sawing lumber upon the slopes of Salmon River, my partner used to go down to White Bird, gamble all Sunday, and get back Monday afternoon. So I resolved to read the New Testament; and when I came to the account of our Lord’s baptism, I saw plainly that the Lord was not sprinkled in Jordan. In 1877 I read a long article on baptism, and, believing Jesus Christ was my Saviour, I was baptized in Portland, Oregon. When in Montana, in 1890, some one sent me a pamphlet, entitled “Elihu on the Sabbath,” and I saw that the teaching of the Presbyterian catechism was right when it said that “from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ God appointed the seventh day to be the weekly Sabbath;” but that it was wrong when it said that “ever after to the end of the world the first day of the week was to be the Christian Sabbath.” There is no “Christian Sabbath” mentioned in the Book. “God is not a man that He should change.” "The truth at all times firmly stood,
And shall from age to age endure."
So I obeyed, and have great comfort thereby.
ROBERT GRIERSON.