Keeping the Commandments of God
Sister A. R. Sheldon writes from Montgomery, Vt.:
“It has been but a few months since I commenced keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Some here think it is a sin for any one to keep the old Sabbath. They say that Christ came and did the commandments away, and that we have nothing to do with the old letter. But I find a passage in the Bible which reads, 'Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven.' Christ says, 'Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfill.' Again, Christ says to the young man, 'If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.' If he came to destroy why would he be so particular? My Bible tells me to leave father and mother and sisters and brothers. I am going to take the Bible for the man of my counsel, and try to live up to it as fast as the light shall shine on my pathway. I first heard the truth from Brn. A. C. and D. T. Bourdeau, who came into our neighborhood to preach. I received the truth, and I can praise God for it.”