A New Sabbath Keeper in Wayne
Sister C. A. Piper writes from Wayne, Ohio: The teachings of the Review have been a great help to me in the investigation of the present truth, which I heard for the first time last summer at the tent in Ohio. While listening to the lectures of Elders Waggoner and Ingraham, I was convinced that the seventh-day was the true Sabbath of the Lord, and was as binding on all as when God himself spoke the command from Sinai. During the meeting, I made up my mind to keep the Sabbath. Although the singularity of keeping the seventh-day I expected would bring down the scoffs of the unprofessing part of the community, I did not expect it of the professed lovers of Jesus. But I have been sadly disappointed. I can discern no difference in the majority of the professors from the world in this respect, except that they manifest generally a more bitter spirit. But I can say that I rejoice that the messengers of the present truth ever came to Wayne, and that I was permitted to hear. I am striving to overcome sin, and my daily prayer is for grace, more grace, that I may keep perfectly all the commandments of God, and have the faith of Jesus. The little company of Sabbath-keepers in this place, are bound together by the sweet ties of love, and Christian fellowship, and are seeking for that purity of heart, which will enable them to overcome the temptations of the enemy of all righteousness, and to stand in the great and terrible day of the Lord. May the Lord grant that, without the loss of a soul, we may be gathered with all the remnant people of God, and our loved ones that sleep in Jesus, in the bright morning of the first resurrection to that abode of peace and love, where celestial music rolls through every dome of the eternal city, and join in the song of redeeming love to God and the Lamb forever.