Sister Hannah Briggs’s Testimony
Sister Hannah Briggs writes from Blendon, Mich., Oct. 23d, 1857: "I have been trying to search my heart and prepare to meet a heart-searching God. My prayer is that I may so live as to recommend the religion of Jesus by a well ordered life and conversation. I can say with the Psalmist, My heart and flesh cry out for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God? My flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is, to see thy power and thy glory so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. It is five years last April since I commenced keeping the Sabbath of the Lord; though I have had the privilege but a few times of meeting with those of like precious faith, yet those seasons were precious. "I am constrained to believe that judgment has indeed begun at the house of God, and that we shall soon see that time of trouble such as never was; and in view of these things let us fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest any of us should seem to come short of it. Let us see to it that we live by faith as well as by obedience to the commandments, which we ever ought to love and observe as a rule of life and duty."