Thayer Accepts the Lord’s Sabbath
By Abijah Thayer
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—I have received the Review and Herald some months past, and read it with pleasure, and I trust, profit. I fully concur in its general position relative to the Sabbath of the Lord our God, and also in respect to the coming glory, and "restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." The fulfillments which we have witnessed for the last ten years, together with the glory which the unfulfilled prophecies foreshow are calculated to suggest the inquiry in each one of our minds, "What manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation, and godliness," and to lead us to gird up the loins of our minds, be sober and hope unto the end for the grace which is to be brought unto us at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen we love, in whom, though now we see him not, yet believing we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.103 I endeavored to keep the Lord's Sabbath for some years, but was moved from that position by J. Turner's arguments, in his discussion with J. B. Cook in the Bible Advocate a few years since, to believe that Sunday was the seventh day. I am now satisfied that it was error, and for several months past have observed the Lord's Sabbath, "rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, so soon to be revealed." I wish the Review and Herald continued, as I value it more highly than all other papers, and will endeavor to help sustain it. Yours in hope of the gospel,
ABIJAH THAYER. Shelbourne Falls, Mass., Sept. 21st, 1852.