Rejoicing in the Seventh-Day Sabbath
By Calvin Washburn
DEAR BRO. WHITE: I think it is high time that I should inform you respecting the paper you have sent to us in these woods, I want you to continue it, for I find that it agrees with the Bible, and that is my guide. We do rejoice in the light that we have received in obeying the commands of God. I now rejoice, with my wife and family, in keeping the seventh day holy unto the Lord. There are none that believe in the Sabbath to our knowledge within seventy miles of us. I feel more convinced that the sanctuary is being cleansed, since I have commenced keeping the seventh day, than before. I am poor in this world, but I feel rich in faith a part of the time, and I can say, glory be to God forever, for the Lord thinketh on me, and my family, although in a howling wilderness, praise his name. I hope he will find me when he comes. Please to forgive me in not writing before. I will aid in publishing the paper as the Lord may prosper me. I do rejoice that the Lord put it into the mind of Brn. Rhodes and Andrews to make us a visit last spring to give us the light of the third angel's message, for I find that it agrees with the Bible and my experience. CALVIN WASHBURN.
No. 5, First Range, (Me.), Nov. 8th, 1851.