A Lonely Sabbath-Keeping Family
By Cynthia Paine
DEAR BRO. WHITE :—We are a lonely few in this place who keep the Sabbath, only four of us, and those of our own family. We know of none who keep the seventh day within about twenty miles.—We thank the Lord that he ever sent his servants with the message of the third angel, and that we ever felt inclined to investigate the subject. We had taken the Review almost a year before Bro. Holt came here. We had read the paper and liked it all, with the exception of what was said upon the Sabbath question. That we had no desire to look into. But O, how changed are our feelings now! It is a little more than a year since we commenced to keep the seventh day, and we are more and more convinced that we have the truth. The subject of the Sanctuary together with the Sabbath are glorious doctrines to us. New beauties in them do we continually behold, and it is a great wonder to us that we did not see the truth and believe it before; but it was rather difficult to get rid of a tradition which we had had for fifty years. But the Lord was able to bring us to the light, and to rejoice in his precious truths.—And we know that he will finally bring us off victorious, if we put our trust in him. We know how to prize the company of the saints, now we are so widely separated from them. The blessed hope cheers us that the time is short, and that very soon we shall all meet no more to be parted for ever. Yours, hoping soon to be gathered with all the saints,
CYNTHIA PAINE.
Ware, Mass., July 22th, 1853.