p. 70 | Turned Out of the Synagogue

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 24, 1865

Turned Out of the Synagogue.

By Sister E. O. Underhill

Sister E. O. Underhill writes from Spring Brook, Mich.: It has been almost five years since I began to keep the Sabbath. I had been a member of the Methodist church some four years, when my brother sent me a little package of papers and a few books. Previous to this, I had never heard of the commandment-keepers. After reading the works, mother thought it our duty to keep the seventh day instead of the first. We did so, and by so doing lost our seats in the church. Our minister said he had been acquainted with the Saturday-keepers; and that he knew no good of them; that they were too beggarly to even have a name. And in visiting us one day to try to prove that Sunday was the right day to keep, his eyes rested on the prophetic chart that was sent us by the same brother. His first exclamation was, "Skunks and woodchucks! What have you here?" He then ordered it to be torn down and burned, as he said it was "poison, poison, deadly poison." My mother told him it should not be burned till she had the proof of its all being wrong. He then stalked out of the room, saying that we were all bound for perdition, and we must leave the church, or we would take others along with us.

This, dear reader, is a little of our experience. We try to profit by all this. We will never lose by obeying God. I do not care for the vacant seat in the M. E. Church, if we can only have a place in the earth made new. Oh that God would give us patience to live, and religion enough to journey on.

I thank the Lord for the light that shines from his word. The Bible used to seem so dark to me; but now it all seems plain. A child can hardly lose the way. I prize the Review. How often I have been strengthened by reading the many testimonies contained in the letter department. I have read Spiritual Gifts. They will be the means of doing much good,

if people will only heed their counsels and warnings. I believe in the soon coming of Jesus. May we so profit by the light and instruction we have received, as to be prepared at his coming.