A New Convert to the Sabbath
By Albert Avery
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—I feel to praise the Lord that I ever had a desire to know the truth, and that I live in this time when the truth is shining with such clearness, and the message of the third angel is being given. It is but a little more than three months since I received the first light on the Sabbath question, (I was then reading the Advent Harbinger and thought the Sabbath was abolished,) through the Review and other works on the Sabbath. Also, by a careful examination of the word of God, I found that none of the commandments of God were abolished, (as Mr. Marsh would have them,) but were his immutable precepts, that Paul calls holy, just and good; [Rom. vii, 12;] and that that James calls the perfect law of liberty. James i, 25. I read the Review with pleasure, and thank God for the light I received on the present truth through its pages, also, through the labors of Bro. M. E. Cornell, a few weeks since. I am with nine or ten others in this place, trying to keep all the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Rev. xiv, 12. Others are investigating. We have prayer-meetings every Sabbath, the Lord is with us, there is a good degree of the spirit of sacrifice among the little band here. All that I possess of this world's good, I cheerfully lay upon the altar to speed the last message of mercy to this ungodly world. Yours in hope of soon seeing Jesus,
ALBERT AVERY. Locke, Mich., Feb. 14th, 1853.