Defending the Seventh-Day Sabbath
By Jane Merry
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: It is some more than four years since I came to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus, under the preaching of Bro. Phelps and Steward, and I have never had a disposition to go back. It has rejoiced me very much to see a letter from Bro. Phelps. I heard he had left from discouragement, but I did not believe it. I am glad that he is not found among the shepherds who have scattered and torn the flock. My heart is grieved when I think how many who began to bind up the breach in God's holy law, have of late torn (or tried to tear) it to pieces. I think it is easy to prove from the Bible, that there is no God, as that there is no Sabbath. I think it is one of the darkest works of the enemy of all truth which I have ever seen. Some try to show the fourth commandment binding only on the Jews. Now I think the command itself shows to the contrary, while it reads, "nor thy stranger that is within thy gates." Now if he was a Jew he was no stranger. I am glad that all the honest in heart can find a sure foundation to rely on. JANE MERRY.
Ft. Charles, M. T., Apr. 17th, 1858.