Keeping the Sabbath in Loneliness
By Gertrude Cobb
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—It is four or five months since we began to keep the Sabbath of the Lord our God. My Bible is a new book to me, because I can understand it better and can take more comfort reading it than I ever did before. We are striving to keep all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. We are lonely here, for there are none in this town that keep the Sabbath of the Lord but myself and husband; yet we feel that the Lord is with us. I feel to praise God that we have embraced the truth of the third angel's message. Dear brethren, I am determined by the grace of God to have on the whole armor, and to contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints. I wish that the Lord would send his servants here to warn this people of their danger; for the opposers of the Lord's Sabbath are on every side. We are despised because we keep all the commandments, but I will still strive to love God and do his will. He has told me if I ask it shall be given me. Surely it is the Lord that has led me thus far, and caused me to receive the light of the present truth, and I hope that the Lord will ever enable me to walk in the right way. I believe the time of trouble spoken of in Daniel is just before us when we shall have to have faith in Christ to stand. I believe that the remnant who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus will soon be at home. Your unworthy sister. GERTRUDE COBB.
De Kalb, St. Law. Co., N. Y., 1855.