The Third Angel’s Message
By T. H. Moffit
Bro. Smith : I feel to rejoice in the Lord that it has been my lot to hear the sound of the third angel's message, for I believe it to be the last call of mercy that will ever be given to a dying world. It is now over four years since I embraced the truth under the labors of Bro. Frisbie, in Bowne, Michigan. I then thought the truth was so plain and easy to be understood that nearly all would receive it; but by four years' experience I have found that the mass of mankind are ready to war against the commandments of God; and in doing so they are not aware that they deny the faith of Jesus. Our blessed Lord kept his Father's commandments, and said also that he came not to destroy the law or the prophets but to fulfill them. I am told (and by church members too), that it does not make any difference what day we keep if we keep one seventh part of time; and one, a Methodist class leader, tells me that it does not make any difference whether we keep a Sabbath or not, only we need rest; but has not God said, "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God," and did not he say to the children of Israel that they should keep the Sabbath? And God is no respecter of persons. The apostle tells us that "the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be;" therefore I conclude that those who are not willing to become subject to the law are carnal, and to be carnally minded is death. We are still trying to overcome our sins here in this place. There are five of us here that come together on the Sabbath to pray for one another and exhort one another. There has never been any preaching here, but we hope we shall not have to wait much longer before our ears will be greeted with the sound of the third angel's message.
T. H. MOFFIT.
Huntsbury, Ohio.