DEAR BRO. WHITE: I do feel to thank and praise the name of the Lord for all the way that he has led me; and I can say the path of the just is as a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
It is now a little more than two years since I heard the third angel's message. I soon saw that it was truth, and that if I would enter into life I must keep the commandments. I had never before dreamed that Sunday-keeping was an institution of Papacy; and as soon as I saw that, I resolved to lay aside the traditions of men, and keep the commandments of God.—Previous to this time, I had been, since 1844, wandering in this world of woe, trying to serve the Lord as well as I knew how, but not knowing my real position, I could not go back to a fallen church and confess that I had been wrong, for I still believed that the coming of the Lord was nigh. I could not unite with any new organization, and build again those things which I once destroyed. Supposing that the Lord would come at the end of the days, I concluded there was a defect in chronology; but I now see that the vision did speak and did not lie.
O, thanks be to God for the clear light that now shines upon his Word since receiving this last warning message; and truly that which is light to us is complete darkness to our enemies. I do thank the Lord that he has counted me worthy to be numbered among the remnant that keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. O, that I may endure unto the end, that I may stand with them upon Mount Zion. I am endeavoring to seek righteousness and meekness that I may be hid in the day of the Lord's anger.
When I view the narrowness of the way, my soul cries out who shall be able to stand when he appeareth; shall I go through. My daily prayer is, Lord make me holy, write thy holy law upon my heart, and help me to look to Jesus till I reflect his lovely image.
We (my companion and myself) are much instructed and comforted in reading the Review and Herald; and we think the lengthy Articles of Bro. Andrews are full of sound doctrine that cannot be condemned. We are also glad that the Lord has put it in your heart to do something for the benefit of the children.