p. 199 | MARTHA SOUTHWORTH by Martha Southworth

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 17, 1864

MARTHA SOUTHWORTH

By Martha Southworth

From Sister Southworth.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS. As I dearly love to read the testimonies in the Review, of those striving to be overcomers, I thought my humble testimony might be read with interest by some of the readers of the Review.

Some three months ago I commenced keeping the seventh-day Sabbath, and felt that I was doing what God had commanded me to do. About four weeks after, a Methodist minister held a series of meetings in our neighborhood, and my companion was converted under his preaching. And I thought I must keep Sunday with him, and help him along in his Christian warfare. What a thought! as if God could not take care of him and help him through all difficulties! But I have since learned that it was a trick of the enemy. I kept four Sundays, but was most of the time enshrouded in darkness; and now I have concluded that I will forsake all, if need be, and I will follow my Saviour. I meet with very little opposition from my husband. He says he never has enjoyed himself as well as since I was a Sabbatarian. Is it not encouraging to have our friends think we are growing better? Oh, I do thank God that through the instrumentality of brethren Taylor and Lawrence, and the aid of a loved sister in the Lord, I have been enabled to look around and see where I was standing. I feel like one awakened out of a deep slumber. Language is inadequate to express the feelings of my heart. By the grace of God, and the prayer of the saints, I will try to keep all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. And may I always be striving to overcome my besetting sins, and at last stand with the remnant people upon Mount Zion.

MARTHA SOUTHWORTH

Fort Covington, N. Y., April 27, 1864.