Peace in Obedience to God's Commands
By W. Cheever
Bro. W. Cheever writes from Marietta, Wis. : It is about one year since I and my companion embraced the Advent faith, and I can say that I never enjoyed myself better in mind than I do now, although I meet with troubles and trials as I try to press onward in the pathway of duty. I try to live in obedience to God's commands and I never have had such great peace as I have had since I embraced the Advent doctrine. I believe it is the truth. I do not pretend to say that others of a different faith that serve God with honest hearts and have sufficient faith and love toward him, will not be saved. But I think after knowing the truth, then to not obey it, is to cast ourselves into outer darkness where we shall share the fate of the wicked. We are commanded to search the Scriptures, to be fully persuaded in our own minds what is truth. How few there are that search the Bible for the truth, unprejudiced, asking God to guide into all truth. The way is so plain that none need err. Fear God and keep his commandments which is the whole duty of man. We should serve God through love, fearing lest we should offend him. We should have enough fear commingled with love to make us obey him. That by all means our duty should be performed with great love and pure delight toward him; because he so loved us that he gave his only begotten Son that we through him might have eternal life. I have had great peace of mind in making the change from the first-day sabbath instituted by man, to the seventh-day Sabbath instituted by God, observed and reverenced by his Son and the apostles. I am greatly blessed in so doing.