A Testimony on Sabbath Truth
By Henry Hilliard
Dear Bro. White :—When I commenced taking the Review I was keeping Sunday for the Sabbath of the Lord. It was very reluctantly that I embraced the seventh day as the Sabbath of the Lord, although I could not see how the first day of the week was the Sabbath from God's holy word, yet I thought it must be, as I had been taught to keep it, and all the world around as far as they observed any day kept Sunday as the Sabbath of the Lord. Why should I not think it right to keep it? Well, I saw that the word of the Lord blessed and sanctified the seventh day, while there was no blessing promised for keeping the first day of the week. "The law is holy, just, and good," and "great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them." I formerly used to believe (and thought sincerely it was taught from God's holy word,) that the wicked existed eternally in misery; and if they do, they must have eternal life in misery; for if the wicked have not conscious being, how can they have eternal misery? It is now plain to me from God's holy word, "that the wages of sin is death," and that a second death is threatened to the wicked, while the righteous have eternal life promised through Jesus Christ our Mediator and Redeemer. I am now striving to keep the commandments of God (too much in the letter I fear) that I may be prepared for the coming of our Saviour who will return to those who love his appearing, the second time without sin unto salvation. Henry Hilliard.
Madrid, Feb. 10th, 1855.