Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

which you allude? And where? I suppose the Review will eventually inform me.“I think my health has suffered from keeping the Sabbath alone in my chamber,in the cold; but I did not think I could keep it where all manner of work and worldlyconversation was the order of the day, as with Sundaykeepers. I think it is the mostlaborious working day with those who keep first day. Indeed, it does not seem to methat the best of Sundaykeepers observe any day as they should. Oh, how I long to beagain with Sabbathkeepers! Sister White will want to see me in the reform dress. Willshe be so kind as to send me a pattern, and I will pay her when I get there. I supposeI shall need to be fitted out when I get among you. I like it much. Sister Thompsonthinks she would like to wear the reform dress.“I have had a difficulty in breathing, so that I have not been able to sleep formore than a week, occasioned, I suppose, by the stovepipe’s parting and completelyfilling my room with smoke and gas at bedtime, and my sleeping there without properventilation. I did not, at the time, suppose smoke was so unwholesome, nor considerthat the impure gas which generated from the wood and coal was mingled with it. Iawoke with such a sense of suffocation that I could not breathe lying down, and spentthe remainder of the night sitting up. I never before knew the dreadful feeling of stiflingsensations. I began to fear I should never sleep again. I therefore resigned myself intothe hands of God for life or death, entreating him to spare me if he had any furtherneed of me in his vineyard; otherwise I had no wish to live. I felt entirely reconciledto the hand of God upon me. But I also felt that satanic influences must be resisted. Itherefore bade Satan get behind me and away from me, and told the Lord that I wouldnot turn my hand over to choose either life or death, but that I would refer it implicitlyto Him who knew me altogether. My future was unknown to myself, therefore said672