Eight Years Keeping the Sabbath
By J. F. Hammond
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—I thank the Lord that I still feel a desire in my heart to be a Bible Christian, and to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil, and to make one of the 144,000 that shall stand upon mount Zion to sing the song of redemption. It has been eight years since I commenced keeping the Sabbath of the Lord; and still I feel to praise the Lord for his goodness to me that he ever inclined my heart to keep the Bible Sabbath. John has said, Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Rev. xiv, 12. And then again he says in Rev. xxii, 14, Blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. O how I want to be among this number; but trials beset me on every side; and sometimes darkness enshrouds my pathway, and I almost sink in despair; then something seems to whisper, Onward, onward, and I take courage, knowing that at the end of the race lies the crown. Yours striving for the kingdom.
J. F. HAMMOND. Springfield, July 3d, 1855.