A New Sabbathkeeper’s Testimony
By Sarah F. Sharpe
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: Although a stranger to you in person, still I feel that in the love of God we are not strangers; for I can truly say that I love the dear Saviour who bled and died on mount Calvary to redeem us, and I love all the saints who are trying to keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus. It is but a few months since I commenced keeping the Sabbath. It was under the preaching of Brn. Holt and Cornell that I saw my poor, blind and naked condition, and that I was trampling God's holy Sabbath under foot every week; and I resolved to turn and repent of my sins, and take heed to the warning of the faithful and true Witness. I feel to bless the Lord for all his goodness and mercies towards me, although my parents, and many that are near and dear to me by the ties of nature, are opposed to the truth; still I thank the Lord that I am not all alone, for my husband is with me, and he is very zealous for the cause of truth. I am truly sensible that I need a deeper work of grace in my heart, and more of the faith that works by love. I feel determined to try by God's grace assisting me, to be up and doing while it is called today, for the night cometh when no man can work. Brethren and sisters, let us be faithful a little longer, and strive to overcome. Christ has said, "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me on my throne, even as I overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne." Rev. iii, 21. Let us gird on the whole armor of righteousness, and fight manfully the battles of the Lord, that we may come off conquerors and more than conquerors through him that hath loved us. 1 Thess v, 8. Yours striving for the kingdom. SARAH F. SHARPE. Green Spring, Ohio, Nov. 1st, 1857.