Sabbath Keepers in Prairie Ronde
Bro. and Sr. Burke write from Prairie Ronde, Mich.: "It has been but a short time since our hearts have been knit with those who by the grace of God have been willing to come out from the world and strive to keep all the commandments of God and suffer inconveniences and persecutions in consequence. We are situated far from all of like precious faith, and cannot enjoy the society of those we love, and with whom our hearts long to meet on the Sabbath of the Lord our God. But if we live as we should we can enjoy the presence of the Lord wherever our lot may be cast, and soon the society of all those who come up out of great tribulation, having washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. We delight in the Sabbath. It is a blessed day to us, though we have some persecutions like all pilgrims and strangers on the earth. There are no other Sabbath-keepers in this vicinity that we have heard of. We have not heard any one speak on the present truth since we left Lapeer last Fall, neither do we believe the people here have as much as heard of it, and it seems a great mystery to them that we keep the seventh day as the Sabbath."