Courage in Keeping the Sabbath
By Eliza Chaffee
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—I feel it my duty to add my testimony to the truth. I do rejoice when the welcome return of your paper greets us. It is like bread to the hungry, and water to the thirsty. It is over a year since a few in this place first tried to keep all the commandments of God. We have sustained the prayer meeting though few in number, to worship the God of heaven, and he meets with us and that to bless. The opposers of the seventh day Sabbath are on every hand. They say that we shall soon be ashamed to keep Saturday for the Sabbath, but to me the Sabbath is more precious now than when I first began to keep it. I receive courage and strength by reading letters from the brethren and sisters scattered abroad, and am determined by the grace of God to have my garments unspotted from the world, that I may have right to the tree of life and enter in through the gates into the New Jerusalem. Yours, with the hope of a glorious immortality at the appearing of Christ. ELIZA CHAFFEE.
Ordino, Feb. 23d, 1855.