PLEASED AND ASTONISHED

The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · December 18, 1879

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 25

PLEASED AND ASTONISHED.

Bro. H. H. Hoyt writes from Richland Co., Wis.:—

Last September a Seventh-day Adventist tent was set up in this village; and out of “curiosity” I went to hear the deluded men (Elds. S. S. Smith and Eli Osborn) present their doctrine. I soon became interested as well as astonished. A discussion on the Sabbath took place between these men and Eld. Hamilton of the Campbellite church, and Eld. Bryan of the Methodist Episcopal church. I hoped the latter would confirm the word to me, as I was, and had been for years, a Methodist; but they could not. The result has been, that my wife and I have lost our home in the M. E. church; and, alone in this community, we are trying to keep the Sabbath of the Lord God. In one sense it is a bitter cross; but we have a bright hope that when Jesus comes we shall have company, and be found among that number who have kept the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. I have read Thoughts on the Revelation, also on Daniel, the Twenty-three Hundred Days, Exposition of Matt. 24, and quite a number of tracts. The more I read, the more plain and clear the whole matter appears. The great wonder to me is, that I have lived so long (nearly forty years) and have not seen these great truths before.