Coming Into Present Truth
By Permelia Dickey
BrO. WHITE : I have many times during the last week asked myself the question, why I should not as well as others tell what the Lord has done for me in permitting me to see the light of present truth, and to hear the voice of the third angel's message. It has been but four months since I in company with my father and mother, sister and brother, commenced keeping the Sabbath according to the commandment. In the February of 1861, Bro. Hull visited our neighborhood and delivered a series of lectures at the school-house. Then it was that I saw myself a sinner in the sight of a great and just God. I saw that I was breaking his everlasting covenant by violating the fourth commandment. But I yielded to the tempter's snare. He led me on in the broad road. He told me I might mingle in the gay circle of my companions who were breaking the commandments of God; that I might enjoy all the pleasures of the world and still find some way of escaping the doom of the wicked. But the Lord was merciful unto me, and Bro. Snook was sent this way, and I again had an opportunity of hearing the word of the Lord. Life and death were set before me. I broke the fetters with which the enemy of souls had so long bound me, and turned unto the Lord, and have since been trying to follow the meek pattern, the example of him who was crowned with thorns, who suffered and died on Calvary for the sins of the world. It is through his death and sufferings that I expect to gain that Heavenly inheritance, which is incorruptible undefiled and that fadeth not away. We have a little church here of seventeen members. We meet every Sabbath-day and the Lord meets with us. Brethren and sisters, may I ask your prayers for the little company here, that we may stand fast during the perils of the last days, and finally meet you, with all the redeemed, around our Father's throne in heaven. In hope of the soon coming of the Saviour.