THEY ARE COMING by Benjamin Clark

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 9, 1860

THEY ARE COMING.

By Benjamin Clark

Bro. Smith: I love to read the communications from the dear brethren and sisters scattered abroad in the different States; and also such pieces as the one from Bro. White (Jan. 12) on "Blessed are they that do his commandments." Such I would recommend to be read over and over again.

To-day I am "three-score and ten," and I feel thankful that I have been permitted to live to see them coming! And still they are coming! And though priests, deacons and people object, still they are coming! For what? To keep "the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus."

From the time I first began to write in favor of the Sabbath of the Lord, (forty years ago,) I have been fully convinced that the Lord's people would yet sometime embrace the true Sabbath; although at that time there was only a remnant (of the seed of the woman, i. e., the church) which kept the commandments of God and had the testimony of Jesus Christ. Rev. xii, 17. And that the dragon, or the earthly power, did make war on such, I am a living witness. For as two of us were traveling through Connecticut in 1815, to see some friends, we were robbed of some six dollars of our traveling money by the authority of their laws, for peaceably traveling on the highway on the Pope's anti-Christian Sabbath. Though one of the least of the flock, and though I am not worthy to suffer persecution for the cause of truth, yet for the truth's sake I deem it right that such anti-Christian acts should be remembered.

My views are still the same as when writing a simple tract called "Elihu on the Sabbath" (which has been through the press five times); viz., that it is

sin to do common labor on the seventh and last day of the week, the same as it is sin to break any other of our Father's commandments; the pope of Rome and his adherents to the contrary notwithstanding.

Now if Christ is our hope, our redemption, our salvation, our love, our life, our strength, our one Teacher, and our all, then if we love his righteous appearing, and love his example, how can we but love his seventh-day Sabbath which he says "was made for man?"

In hope of the rest that remaineth to the people of God.

BENJAMIN CLARK.

Alden, N. Y.