p. 80 | Review and Herald, Vol. 21, No. 10. (2/3/1863)

Earlier text: Thoughts on the Revelation

Sister Stevenson’s Conversion Testimony

By E. B. Stevenson

From Sister Stevenson.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: It has been but a little over a year since I was shown that I was trampling the commandments of God under my feet, and weekly breaking his holy Sabbath. With my husband I had been a Methodist, but we saw so much that was wrong hidden under the cloak of Methodism, that we left the church, and became conformed to the world and the fashions to a greater extent than ever.

Our present national calamities breaking over us, my husband enlisted, and I came to Michigan, where for the first time I heard present truth advocated, by Bro. Hull, at Flowerfield, a year ago last November.

I feel to-day to give God all the praise, and will try to prove more faithful in the future; for great and marvelous have been his dealings toward me. Truly I have been led in a way that I knew not.

I had many idols to lay aside, and at first thought it would be an easy task; but afterward I had to learn by experience that these things must first be torn from the heart, and then taken from the person. I laid aside my ornaments and fashionable articles of dress, but not having the love of them eradicated from my heart, I soon returned to them again. I read the testimony given to the church, and after that could have but little rest until I laid them aside, and tried, the grace of God assisting me, to overcome.

Having one day been left alone, with an opportunity for reflection, I was led to see the need of coming out and separating myself from the world. I went to my closet and asked strength to tear these idols from my heart; that I might lay them aside, and get nearer to God, and in a position where God would be pleased to own and bless me.

Since I took this step, I have felt more free, and enjoyed the blessing of God in a good degree, and in a way that I never had, or could have had, as long as I kept them on. I think that the reform has been effectual. I no longer feel a desire to wear them, or have them around me, but feel thankful to God that he has given us light upon this point. Though it may cause my friends to treat me ill, and turn from me, yet by God's grace I shall still try to overcome and get on the whole armor, that I may be counted worthy to share in the covering which God is preparing to shelter his people in the time of trouble which is just upon us. I fully realize that in my own strength I shall not be able to stand, but only in the strength of God shall I be able to persevere and gain the kingdom.

I have been greatly strengthened by the preaching of Brn. Loughborough and Byington at our quarterly conference at Parkville. May the Lord help them, and give them aid and strength from on high, that they may continue in the work of uniting and arousing the churches and the youth and children, and abundantly bless them with a reward of their labors in seeing the churches arise and press together and try to get nearer to God, and more awake to their duty toward their children.

May the Lord help us as a people to arise and press forward, that we may not lose the crown, but go on with renewed strength and ardor to possess the goodly land, enter in through the gates into the city, and have right to the tree of life, and enjoy the smiles of our heavenly Father to all eternity.

This is all I have to hope for here or hereafter, and may the Lord help me to prove faithful unto the end, that, though alone and homeless here in this dark, unfriendly world, I may have a home in heaven that is incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away.

In hope of eternal life.

E. B. STEVENSON.

Parkville, Mich.

G. G. DUNHAM

By G. G. Dunham

From Bro. Dunham.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: The Lord in his goodness and mercy has spared us to behold the dawning of the new year; and now as we commence the new year with new desires and with heavenly aspirations, let us not once turn and look back, but ever follow after that which will be pleasing to Him who has spared and kept us. To me the way is bright and cheering, and I do truly want the Spirit of Christ that I may be his at his coming. I want to forget those things which are behind, and reach forth unto those things which are before, and have every battle a certain victory.

The truth of God certainly has power to keep us if we live it out. O, while we have such clear light beaming from the word of God, let us claim his promises and live so as to realize them in the glorious future, when our vile bodies shall be fashioned like unto his glorious body, and we shall bask in the light of God's countenance in the heavenly city. We can none of us have any objection to Christ's coming if we are truly strangers and pilgrims here; for this seems to me to be the grand center around which our thoughts should cluster. It is the one thing we should desire above all others. The cloud of witnesses is daily increasing. The gigantic strides of Spiritualism, and the stir of late among the devotees of orthodoxy, show that we are surely soon to pass through the time of trouble. But we know that through faith we can bear all things, the Lord also being our helper.

G. G. DUNHAM

Eaton Rapids, Mich.

CATHARINE M. SHEPARD

By Catharine M. Shepard

From Sister Shepard.

BRO. WHITE: I feel like testifying in favor of the goodness of God. His grace has sustained me under the most trying circumstances. Satan has tried hard to drive me to despair, but I will not distrust my heavenly Father who hath said, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." I firmly believe that a living faith in God's word and the testimonies of Jesus will guide us safely through the perils of these last days. O, it will be but little longer that we shall have to walk by faith, and I know that trials are necessary to purify us, and "all things work together for good to them that love God." I rejoice in the prospect of a soon coming Saviour, and am anxious to get ready to meet him.

It is a great thing to be so pure that we shall not speak an idle word, and sometimes I am afraid I shall come short at last. But my hopes are all centered in Jesus, the lovely Jesus, who gave his life for us. It is but a little that I can give up for him, or suffer for him, in comparison with what he has done for me. I want to know the fellowship of his sufferings, and be conformed to his will in all things. I feel that I must press on and eagerly strive for the immortal inheritance. Time is bearing us swiftly onward, and sometimes I can lift up my head and rejoice as I see we are nearing the port.

Yours in hope of an endless life.

CATHARINE M. SHEPARD

Trenton, Wis.

Sister Hopkins Embraces the Sabbath

From Sister Hopkins.

Bro. White: I have ever, from a child, been a reader of the Bible, and I never could see nor understand why we kept Sunday for the Sabbath, when the fourth commandment says, "Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy; the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God," &c. Yet I still continued to keep Sunday, but not according to the fourth commandment. I thought, like many others, there was no harm in doing a little common work, visiting, &c. I had never heard a sermon on the subject until Brn. Andrews, Cottrell, and Sperry held a tent meeting on Pompey Hill, two years ago last August, when they explained the Sabbath question to my satisfaction. I conferred not with flesh and blood, but immediately commenced to keep the Sabbath of the Lord my God. I can now lay aside all unnecessary work, and endeavor to keep the Sabbath-day holy. It is my delight. Nothing would induce me to give it up, although none of my family yet keep the Sabbath with me; yet I hope and pray that they may all be brought to a saving knowledge of the truth as it is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Pray for me and mine.

From your unworthy sister.

A. Hopkins.

Pompey, N. Y.

Overcoming Tobacco and Keeping God’s Commandments

By James White

From Bro. Hulet.

Bro. White: There are a few of us here in Leslie who are trying to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. We have meetings on the Sabbath for prayer and conference, but we have not been favored with any preaching, yet we think that if some one of the messengers could come this way much good might be done, and a church might be organized. It has been rather difficult for some of us to do without tea and tobacco; but we are overcoming them.

I had been in the habit of smoking tobacco for at least twenty-two years, until last June. Then my duty was made known to me plainly, and on the 5th day of June I smoked the last pipe of tobacco, and it was not so difficult to leave off as I expected it would be. On the 13th of last July, at Charlotte, I went down into the water to follow the example of my Lord and Master. Since that time I have been trying to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus; and I hope, by the grace of God, to overcome all evil and obtain an inheritance in the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Yours in hope of eternal life.

Asa Hulet.

Leslie, Mich.

Extracts from Letters.

Sister S. W. Austin writes from Kinsman, O. : Under a deep sense of gratitude I seat myself to acknowledge the receipt of a few Nos. of the Review and Herald, through the benevolence of a friend. Language is not adequate to express the gratitude I feel, once more to have the privilege of searching the evidences of our Christian hope. It carries me back to 1843, when I listened to father Miller, as he presented proofs from the Scriptures that our redemption was nigh, which caused my heart to thrill with joy in anticipation of soon meeting the redeemed where sorrow and sighing would be no more.

I left Vt. in Oct. of that year, and located in Erie Co., Pa., where the millennial doctrine has been treated with contempt, and the little son, then four years old, that used to talk of Christ's coming to take him to heaven, now a man of a family, is drawn off by the call of his country to meet those of his own nation in mortal conflict. Oh, how can I express the deep sorrow that fills my heart at such a calamity! Nothing but the grace of God can console me under such deep affliction. I hope to be enabled to endure hardness as a good soldier, that I may wear the crown.

OBITUARY.

By J. L.; Samantha Baker

DiED in Alba, Pa., Jan. 7, 1863, of typhoid fever, our only daughter, Emma R. Baker, aged three years, six months and twenty-four days. Though we mourn her loss, and miss her little voice even around the family altar, as we unite in singing praises to our heavenly Father, yet we sorrow not as those without hope, for we believe Jesus will soon break the fetters of the tomb, when she will come forth clothed in glorious immortality.

Sermon on the occasion by Bro. J. A. Laughhead, from Jer. xxxi, 15.

"Sleep, dear child, till Jesus calls thee From thy lowly resting-place."

J. L. & SEMANTHA BAKER.

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Notice

THE next meeting of Seventh-day Adventists in Northern New York will be held in West Bangor, Franklin Co. It is hoped that those desiring baptism will come prepared. The above meeting is to commence the third Sabbath in February, and continue two days, or more if the cause demands it. H. W. LAWRENCE.

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Note from Bro. Sanborn.

By Isaac Sanborn

Bro. White: I have given thirteen lectures here. At the first one there were about thirty present. Since that time the congregation and interest have increased continually to the present. There is now a prospect here for much good. I shall probably remain here three weeks longer.

Pray that the Lord may make the truth powerful in the conversion of many souls in this place.

Isaac Sanborn.

Johnstown Center, Wis.

Brethren, Beware!

By J. H. Waggoner

I HAVE received information from several sources that a Mr. R. N. Chaffee is doing much injury to the cause of truth in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, in and about Orwell, by his inconsistent course, and by professing to be a preacher of the third angel's message. I am informed that a friend of the cause once prepared a notice of his course for publication as a warning against his evil influence, but refrained from sending it to the Office on Mr. Chaffee's promising to reform, and especially to desist from his efforts to preach the present truth. Since that time, however, he has continued his course, to the great reproach of the truth, and the grief of its friends. I am therefore induced to publish this as the only means left to suppress the evil, and check its influence among those who are ignorant of our real faith and practice.

J. H. WAGGONER.

Wakeman, O., Jan., 30, 1863.

A P P O I N T M E N T S.

By John Norton Loughborough

Providence permitting, I will hold meetings as follows:

Orange, Mich., Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 10, 11.

A Quarterly meeting at Orleans, Feb. 14 and 15.

Green Bush, Sabbath and first-day, 21 and 22.

Owasso, the evening of the 24th, and day and evening of the 25th.

A Quarterly meeting at St. Charles the 28th, and March 1.

Locke, March 7 and 8, and part of the week following.

Woodhall, the 14th and 15th.

A Quarterly meeting at Lapeer, the 21st and 22d.

A Quarterly meeting at Avon (with the Oakland and Shelby churches) the 28th and 29th.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

To the Brethren in New Hampshire.

By D. T. Bourdeau, A. S. Hutchins, A. C. Bourdeau

Having received your repeated invitations to labor in New Hampshire, we would say that, the Lord willing, we shall hold a conference at Washington, N. H., Sabbath and first-day, February 7th and 8th, after which we intend to hold meetings in new fields, according to your request. If the roads permit, we shall endeavor to reach Washington one week before the conference, that we may have time to select a field of labor.

D. T. Bourdeau,

A. S. Hutchins,

A. C. Bourdeau.