HICKMAN MILLER by Hickman Miller

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 22, 1857

HICKMAN MILLER

By Hickman Miller

From Bro. Miller.

Bro. Smith: Though a stranger, I write to let you know that I am a lover of the truths advocated in the Review. There are a few of us here who have kept the Sabbath of the fourth commandment since last Spring. We were first moved to search for the truth of the Bible on this point by conversing with brother West from Illinois. In searching the Scriptures, we found that keeping the first day of the week for the Sabbath had no foundation in the word of God; and if we ever expected to be saved, we must keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus.

This appears to be a dark corner of the earth, for the world and the popular church go hand in hand against the Sabbath of the Lord, and those who keep it; but we read in the word of God, Matt. v. 11, "Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake;" and in 2 Tim. iii. 12, "Yea and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." These and other passages are great encouragement for us to bear persecution. How great and precious are the promises contained in the word of God. It is meat indeed, and drink indeed to every hungry, thirsty soul. It is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. O that we may be zealous and repent of all our sins, that we may at last have a right to the tree of life.

I would say that we have never heard any of the preaching brethren that are proclaiming the Third Angel's Message to the human family. We would be glad if some of the brethren would come this way and more fully explain to us this message, for I believe that there are some here that are almost persuaded to keep the Sabbath. There are also some that are keeping the Sabbath who are waiting to go forward in the ordinance of baptism if some one would come this way to administer it.

What a different book the Bible is to me to what it used to be. How plain its truths that teach the weary pilgrim the way that he must walk in, that he may finally stand with the Lamb on Mount Zion. Yours in hope of eternal life.

HICKMAN MILLER

Oneida, Ohio, Oct. 13th, 1857