HELEN C. LEWIS by Helen C. Lewis

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 8, 1857

HELEN C. LEWIS

By Helen C. Lewis

From Sister Lewis.

BRO. SMITH: "It is now about five years since, by reading a small tract on the Sabbath, which I found stowed away in a cupboard of a nominal Christian, I was then working for, which convinced me that if I would do every known duty and avoid the mark of the beast, I must keep the Sabbath. I was in great distress of mind for about a week. Parents, brothers, cousins, and other relatives, to say nothing of the world, to oppose me; young, timid and inexperienced, how could I stand so much opposition. I at last thought I would avoid breaking the next Sabbath by going to see a family about a mile and a half distant. I had heard that the woman of the house kept the seventh day, and that her husband did not. I thought that I should hear both sides of the subject, and if the man could have shown me any thing in the Bible that favored Sunday, I should have caught at it as drowning men would catch at a straw. But I found they were both in favor of the seventh-day Sabbath; and I made up my mind that if there was only one any where near that kept the Sabbath, I would also keep it, and I have been trying to do so ever since. The Bible has become a new book to me. I would say to the brethren and sisters, Take courage.

Your presence even may encourage some halting one to do their duty; and I can testify that stronger are they that are for us than they that are against us. I have borrowed much trouble from the future, been too cold, lukewarm, and too much like the world. But I do not mean to be so distrustful of Providence, but to live in such a way that I can claim the protection of Heaven.

HELEN C. LEWIS

Brasher Falls, N. Y.