The Blessing of the Bible Sabbath
By Lois Mighell
Bro. SMITH: Although a stranger to you in the flesh, I trust we are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Blessed union! Christ is all and in all. I want no other portion in earth or heaven. "His presence makes my Paradise." Unto me who am less than the least of all saints is this grace given. Through the tender mercies of a kind, indulgent God, and the speaking blood which pleads for us55in the courts of heaven, I am spared to see forty years expire since the Lord was pleased to bless me with the spirit of adoption, whereby I was enabled to cry Abba, Father, my Lord and my God. It is of late that my companion and myself have set out to keep the Bible Sabbath. I feel that this employment is delightful. It has been a blessing to my soul. May these truths be more and more manifest to all the members of Christ's church, until they come to the unity of the faith. The first of my being thoroughly convinced that I was not keeping the true Sabbath was last winter. I had felt disposed to reject it, but the words came to me, "Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life." I was amazed at the speedy answer to my prayer for light. As the Sabbath came my convictions increased. I felt a great responsibility to obey, and when the powers of darkness prevailed Bro. Baker like a Peter to Cornelius came to our house and set before me some of the scripture truths which treated upon the third angel's message, by means of which I have been set free, and I trust I never shall be entangled again with the yoke of bondage. We as a little flock meet at Bro. Baker's every Sabbath. This from an unworthy sister, who requests the prayers of the saints for overcoming grace. Chatham, Pa., June, 1859.