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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 28, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 17.

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ALICE H. BARNES

By Alice H. Barnes

From Sister Barnes.

[Bro. White: Sister Barnes, the writer of the following, has been deaf 27 years. She cannot hear the loudest thunder. But she can understand everything that any one says, by seeing the motion of the lips. She is an earnest Christian. A. C. Bourdeau.]
Bro. White: It is with feelings of gratitude to God I write these lines. I praise God for his goodness and love in giving me to see the truth in regard to his holy commandments. I commenced keeping the Sabbath the seventeenth day of last December. Some thought I should soon tire of it; but each returning one seems better than the last. So bright and clear does the light of truth shine upon the sacred pages in regard to the Sabbath, that the Bible does not seem like the same book that it did a few weeks ago. The promises of God to his faithful followers, are precious indeed. Jesus overcame the world; and if we trust him he will give us strength to overcome also. I find far more delight and happiness in keeping the seventh day as the Sabbath of the Lord than ever I did in keeping the first-day or the Sunday of Papal authority. There seems to be something sacred and holy about the seventh day; and I cannot doubt its being the true Sabbath of the Lord, and God requires us to obey him and keep his commandments.
For twenty-seven years I have been a professed follower of the Lord. In that time I have enjoyed much of his presence and love. But the deep quiet happiness of the past few weeks far exceeds anything I ever enjoyed before. I feel that God approves my course and blesses me while striving to keep his Sabbath-day holy. How happy I should be if some of my old companions and former classmates could be made partakers of like precious faith, and go with me to mount Zion. My earnest desire is to live humble before the Lord and strive to do his will. Oh that I might be made meek and lowly in heart and life, that when Jesus comes to take his children home, my name may be found numbered with those who are keeping all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. I praise God for the glorious hope of soon seeing Jesus, and going to dwell with him in that better land to which we are hastening.

ALICE H. BARNES

West Enosburg, Vt.