p. 111 | COMMUNICATIONS by G. R. Barber

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 3, 1856

COMMUNICATIONS.

By G. R. Barber

From Bro. Barber.

BRO. SMITH:—I take this opportunity to write to you informing you that you have one more added to your number that is trying to keep the Sabbath of the Lord our God. I commenced keeping the Sabbath the last Sabbath in September. Myself and companion went to prayer-meeting to brother Cramers' in Milton but had not got the light on the change of the Sabbath. I did not know whether it was the change of the day or the name of the day, but soon got hold of the history of the change made by the Pope, the Man of Sin, the one that the Lord is to consume by the Spirit of his mouth, and destroy by the brightness of his coming.

We have good prayer-meetings on the Sabbath but we have enemies on every hand to try us and to test our faith in these perilous times. Still we are trying to keep the commandments of God and live out the faith of Jesus.

When brethren Hutchins and Sperry were at our place, I had no thought that I should be a Seventh day man; but I found that I could not avoid it: I must keep the Sabbath let others do as they may.

I want to so live that I may enter in through the gates into the City and have right to the tree of life.

This is the promise to those that keep the commandments. I desire the prayers of all the brethren and sisters connected with the Third Angel's Message and all the friends of Jesus that I may be kept by the grace of God in the spirit of the Message.

I am thankful that there is a little Remnant that are looking for that blessed hope of seeing Jesus as he is and being made like him.

Your unworthy brother looking for deliverance at the coming of the Lord. G. R. BARBER. Saratoga, Co., N. Y., Dec., 16th, 1855.