Sperry’s Visit to Vermont and Canada
By Charles W. Sperry
Dear Bro. White:—In company with Bro. Buck, seven weeks, I visited several places in Vermont, from thence to Canada East, where we spent four weeks, trying to present the truth, which will, I trust, prove a savor of life unto life, or of death unto death. We visited several new places, and had a good hearing. But the truth is not only reaching new minds, but is searching deeply the hearts of those already professing truth. And may the Lord let it search us all thoroughly. But Oh! how many positions men take to get round the plain word of God. While conversing with a Baptist Minister upon the Sabbath, asking him for his authority for keeping the first day, he said, "Because my father kept it!" I then asked him where his father got it. But he was silent. Now if we had no more authority for advising men to keep the seventh day then this, would not our opposers have good reason to call us deceivers? Oh, thought I, is it so that men will feed on fables, rather than the truth. "And the prophets prophesy falsely, the priests bear rule, and the people love to have it so." We also met with the arguments of the new-time-theory. Many of their ideas look like the perversion of Scripture. I have a paper chart of their time, and after explaining their theory, they say, "Take a Bible course, keep the commandment of God and the faith of Jesus." Oh how thankful I am for the truth which shines clearly. If the 2300 days have not expired, and do not until 1855, they will not meet the Lord then; for the Bible gives us a Sanctuary to be cleansed then, we shall be under the necessity of going there to learn what the Sanctuary is. And how clear the Bible upon this subject also. May the Lord lead us to see all the truth, feel all the truth, practise all the truth, that the truth may make us free. From your unworthy brother, looking for redemption at the appearing of Jesus. C. W. SPERRY. Potsdam, N. Y., Mar. 10th, 1854.