A Free-Will Baptist Keeps the Sabbath
By Lemuel Chester
ELDER WHITE, DEAR SIR:—Although we are strangers in the flesh, yet I trust we are not to the doctrine of the Second Advent of our Lord and Saviour, and, also, the Bible Sabbath—the seventh day, which I try to observe. I have formerly been a strict observer of First-day, and my wife, also; but now she keeps the Sabbath with me. The person that is addressing you was formerly a member and minister of the Free-will Baptist Church; but when I turned to keep the Sabbath, they would not claim me any longer. And by chance in some paper I beheld your name as Editor of the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, published at Rochester, N. Y., and I wish to subscribe for this paper. Yours with respect, LEMUEL CHESTER.
Pittsfield, Berkshire Co., Mass., Oct. 1st, 1853.