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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 23, 1856

Extra Letters.

Sister Laura Murch writes from Paw Paw, Mich.: "Ever since I could read and understand for myself I have believed that if one day was holier than another it was the seventh. O how blinded by the doctrines and traditions of men not to perceive that what God had made holy, was holy. But thanks be to God who opened my eyes, and enlightened my understanding on the subject of the Sabbath. It is now over two years since my mind was awakened to the subject. I then began to search the Scriptures for arguments to sustain my position in regard to Sunday-keeping. But what was my astonishment when reading carefully and with a prayerful heart, I could find nothing to prove that Sunday was ever kept as a Sabbath by the apostles, and that the Sabbath of the Lord was not abolished, but that Jesus was Lord also of the Sabbath. Now what a conflict commences! I must now leave my good name, be called a deluded creature, unstable, carried about with every wind of doctrine, bear the reproach of those near and dear to me by the ties of nature and friendship; or, I must bear the reproach of my own conscience, and be condemned by God's word, which says, Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy. I am told that the day has been lost; that from the creation until Moses it was not observed, therefore it must have been forgotten. God surely had not forgotten it when he gave the commandments to the children of Israel; and the women which prepared spices and ointment for embalming the body of Jesus, and rested the Sabbath-day according to the commandment, must have known it.

"Not only do I wish to keep the Sabbath, but all of the commandments. And O may we who believe in the soon coming Christ, be careful to depart from iniquity. O for holiness of heart! O, my brethren and sisters, I hope shall set such examples as shall convince those around us that we have been with Jesus."