p. 167 | Holding Fast to Present Truth by L. Sturdevant

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Jan 23, 1855

Holding Fast to Present Truth

By L. Sturdevant

From Sr. Sturdevant

DEAR BRO. WHITE :—I delight in the Sabbath of the Lord. It is a blessed day to me, though I have many persecutions like all pilgrims and strangers on the earth. There are no other Sabbath-keepers in this vicinity that I have heard of.

I have been striving though in much weakness to keep all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, and I am determined to hold on to the present truth till I find something better from God's holy Word. I have not heard any one speak on the question of the Sabbath since Bro. Joseph Bates was with us last March at Elizabeth. We labor under many disadvantages surrounded as we are by a Sabbath-breaking community, and deprived also of meeting with any of like precious faith.

"I walk alone and oft am sad And falls the briny tear, My heart is grieved with trials sore, And pressed with many a care; But the better land no sorrow knows: There hushed is every sigh: The Saviour's hand in kindness wipes, The tear drops from each eye." L. STURDEVANT. Blue Mounds, Dane Co , Wis. Jan. 1st, 1855.