p. 760 | THEY ARE COMING

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, December 2, 1884

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 61, No. 48

THEY ARE COMING.

THE truth is working its way surely among the people. One after another is falling into the ranks of its adherents. Persons of intelligence and candor, after examining all the efforts of its enemies to overthrow it, are compelled by the force of evidence to embrace it. They examine for instance the Sabbath question; and the more they investigate the arguments of its opponents, the more they see the weakness of those arguments, and the more they are convinced of the truth. Such is the case with a minister in Minnesota who has just written to us. May God bless him, and lead him into all truth. From his letter we give the following extract:—

“I have been reading your publications with considerable interest. By investigating the subject I have come to the conclusion that the ten commandments are still binding on the race. I was educated to believe that Sunday is the Sabbath. I read in confirmation of this doctrine ‘The First-Day Sabbath’ by T. M. Preble. But I must confess that after considering all the evidences advanced to establish the theory, I still remained skeptical as to the correctness of it. I was troubled with the identity of the old or first covenant with the ten commandments, until I read your little tract called ‘The Two Covenants.’ That seemed to remove the difficulty. I do rejoice in ‘present truth,’ and feel that this is among the truths to be given to this generation. I do earnestly solicit an interest in your prayers that God will by his Spirit lead me into more truth, and anoint my eyes with the eye-salve, till I am fully sanctified by a belief in the same. John 17:17.”

“I have preached the gospel as I understand it with the exception of the seventh-day Sabbath. I taught, as far as I knew, that Sunday is the Sabbath, but I can do so no longer, conscientiously; and so my preaching and teaching must become, as a matter of course, very unpopular. But I care not for this. I want to know the truth of God’s word which is able to make me wise unto salvation.”