How T. K. Henry Accepted the Sabbath
Bro. T. K. Henry writes from Leslie, Mich. : “I feel like doing what I am able to do in this cause. I believe in trying every expedient that will have a tendency to cause others to engage in it. I do not feel disposed to give those up who oppose the truth at first. I am rather inclined to judge others by myself; and it is quite likely I never should have embraced the present truth if it had not been for the unabating zeal of Bro. I. D. Vanhorn and others. At first I clung to the first day of the week. I held to this as long as I could under the heavy blows of reason and scripture to which I was subjected. By these weapons I was soon compelled to loose my hold, but unfortunately for me, I lodged on the platform of no-Sabbath. To this I clung with great tenacity. But I was finally compelled to relinquish this also, by the same weapons as before. This time I caught hold of the Lord's Sabbath, and third angel's message, and here I find a position which the truth does not tear down, and evil cannot shake. The text that did more than any other one to convince me of the perpetuity of the Sabbath, is found in Isa. lxvi, 23. Here it speaks of a Sabbath in the new earth; and I thought if there was to be a Sabbath kept there, it was necessary to keep one here, and I was forced to believe that the new earth Sabbath would be the one that God instituted. For we find no change of day, or cause; but it merely says the Sabbath; which must mean God's, and not man's. I conclude by saying I will try to keep the Sabbath instituted for this earth, and the one that is destined to be the Sabbath of the next. I commenced about the middle of last harvest, having investigated the subject more than a year previous to that time.”