A Lonely Sabbath Keeper
By S. A. Jessip
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I sometimes feel very lonely here, not having heard a sermon from any of the messengers for three years, excepting one funeral discourse. The Apostle tells us to speak often one to another, and so much the more as we see the day approaching. O with what carefulness ought we to watch our actions, knowing that for every idle word we speak we must give account thereof in the day of judgment. We must be cleansed from all filthiness of the flesh, for none but pure and holy beings shall see God. I mean by his grace to be an overcomer, that I may meet you all in the kingdom. I thank God for his many blessings, and for calling me from darkness into his marvelous light. I feel very thankful for the Review. It is truly meat in due season to my hungry soul, and is all the preaching I have. How I love to read its pages, and try to profit by them. I hope it will be sustained, and that I can do something for the cause soon. It is five years since I began to keep the Sabbath, and I have never had cause to repent it. I can truly say with David of old, How love I thy law! I mean to keep all God's commandments that I may have right to the tree of life and enter in through the gates into the city. Pray for me that I may be accounted worthy to escape all those things that are coming on the earth, and to stand before the Son of man. S. A. JESSIP.
Athens, Mich., Jan 16th, 1858.