Embracing Present Truth and the Sabbath
By W. J. Susk
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—It is with thrilling interest, that I reflect upon the present truth, by which God has brought me and my companion to see the necessity of our entire and immediate submission to his will and requirements. We are endeavoring to keep the Sabbath, although there are many to oppose, who set at naught the counsels of the Most High; yet with all the conflicting interests with which we are surrounded, God's truth stands out preeminently sublime, unshaken and unmoved, while the thick storms are gathering with blackness around the moral horizon, predictive of some future calamity, which is just about to break upon an ungodly world. May God in mercy protect his dear children from the impending storm, and fiery trials that are already beginning to deluge the earth. God will deliver his people. He will stand by them in the time of peril; for in the last days, perilous times shall come; but God has promised to deliver his children out of trouble, those that cease to worship the beast, and get rid of his mark, and the number of his name, shall soon, yea, very soon triumph over all the persecuting powers of the man of sin, and be fully prepared, by grace divine, to stand upon the sea of glass having the harps of God. It has been but a few weeks since we had the privilege of listening to the third angel's message, and many other important truths connected with it. I had never heard a sermon on the subject of the Sanctuary or the law until presented by Bro. Case. Joy penetrated the soul, when the result of my investigations led me to say, that I would keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. There is a beauty and efficacy in truth, that throws a halo of pure delight and joy around every believers heart. There are four in this place beside myself and family who are endeavoring to keep the Sabbath according to the commandment. May God in his infinite mercy strengthen and protect the little band in Goodrich. May light from God's eternal truth brighten our pathway in our onward course to the City, that we, with all the sanctified of the Lord may gain a permanent and complete victory over the beast, his image, his mark, and the number of his name, that we may be numbered with the hundred and forty and four thousand, who have the seal of God in their foreheads, and are ready to meet Christ at his coming; for yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Yours in the truth.
W. J. SUSK.
Goodrich, Feb. 14th, 1854.