Sister Hopkins Embraces the Sabbath
Bro. White: I have ever, from a child, been a reader of the Bible, and I never could see nor understand why we kept Sunday for the Sabbath, when the fourth commandment says, "Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy; the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God," &c. Yet I still continued to keep Sunday, but not according to the fourth commandment. I thought, like many others, there was no harm in doing a little common work, visiting, &c. I had never heard a sermon on the subject until Brn. Andrews, Cottrell, and Sperry held a tent meeting on Pompey Hill, two years ago last August, when they explained the Sabbath question to my satisfaction. I conferred not with flesh and blood, but immediately commenced to keep the Sabbath of the Lord my God. I can now lay aside all unnecessary work, and endeavor to keep the Sabbath-day holy. It is my delight. Nothing would induce me to give it up, although none of my family yet keep the Sabbath with me; yet I hope and pray that they may all be brought to a saving knowledge of the truth as it is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Pray for me and mine. From your unworthy sister.