Embracing the Present Truth
By S. Lyon
Bro. Smith: Little over a year since I embraced the present truth, and commenced keeping the Sabbath. I have been a professor of religion thirty years, and thought I was keeping God's law, until I commenced investigating the Scriptures, and I saw such beauty and harmony in the word of God as I never saw before. I am determined to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made me free, until I can say with Paul, I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. O that God would send some of his messengers this way, that the people of Elgin might hear the present truth proclaimed instead of the traditions of men.