Extracts from Letters by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 28, 1856

Extracts from Letters.

By Editor

Bro. R. G. Weaver writes from Hudson, Mich., Aug. 16th, 1856:—"Bro. Smith, I first heard the glorious truths of the Third Angel's Message, and God's holy Sabbath a little more than three years ago last Winter. I commenced searching the Bible for testimony to prove the keeping of the first day of the week to be scriptural; but to my surprise there was not any.

"I then commenced keeping the Sabbath; and I enjoyed more of the Spirit of God the remainder of that Winter, than I had for years previous. My companion took hold of the blessed truth with me, and Bro. Arthur Johnston, a Sabbath-keeper, moved into the place about that time, and we met together most every Sabbath; and the form of the fourth was in our midst to own and bless.

"Glory be to God that I ever saw the present truth. O may I ever walk before him so that when he maketh up his jewels I may be among that happy number, that will range those blissful fields of glory."

Bro. S. I. Twing writes from West Winsted, Ct. : "I have been a believer in Adventism for five years. Last Winter I received a few of your papers : in reading those and the Bible, I found that I was not keeping the Commandments of God. I gave the subject a thorough investigation, and found that the Sabbath should be kept as well as the rest of the commandments, which I have been trying to keep since last January. There is no one that I can converse with on the subject; therefore I wish you to send me the Review."