A Testimony to Present Truth
Sister C. Howlet writes from Potton, C. E.: “I praise the Lord that he ever brought me to see the present truth. I had been for some years a seeker after truth, expecting the path to shine more and more, and when Bro. Pierce came to our house with the Sabbath, I received it in the love of it. I could not bear the thought of breaking God's holy law, and acted up to the light given me. In so doing I was greatly blessed, and could understand the Scriptures much better. I wondered every one could not see it. If we love him we shall delight to keep his commandments, and they will not be grievous. I am thankful the third angel's message ever reached me. “I hope to be found doing His commandments that I may have right to the tree of life. In order for this I must purify my heart by obeying the truth. I want to be sanctified soul, body and spirit, that every word may be seasoned with grace, that I may do some little good, and glorify God while I live. I want to see more and more of a rising in the church. We must come up on high and holy ground in order to be where the Lord can work for us. It is but a year last July since I embraced the truth. “I hope our sisters that have been longer in the message will truly be mothers in Israel, realize the responsibility that is resting upon them, and shed a holy influence in the sphere in which they move. Our daily example is either for Christ or against him. He that gathereth not with him scattereth abroad. Our communication, our dress, all our deportment in life is for the truth or against it. I lament that we are so prone to sin, but if we have in time past fulfilled the lusts of the eye and the pride of life, let us now glorify God with our bodies and spirits which are his. I rejoice that grace may reign through righteousness unto eternal life. I long to fully reflect the image of Jesus, and breath the pure and holy atmosphere of a better world than this.”