AT HOME AGAIN by D. T. BOURDEAU.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 10, 1867

AT HOME AGAIN.

By D. T. BOURDEAU.

We reached home the 30th ult., somewhat weary, but in good spirits, and thankful to our Heavenly Father for his care over us during the whole period of our absence, which was nearly one year and six months. During this period we have traveled between six and seven thousand miles, and have been enabled to stand at our post where our help was needed; and as we look over the past, our greatest astonishment is that we have passed through what we have. But the Lord has been with us and sustained us, and we have had the benefits of the health reform.

It has indeed been a privilege and a source of encouragement, and we trust, real benefit, for us to attend the interesting and profitable meetings at Battle Creek and Roosevelt, on our way home. Such a heart-searching time, and such a powerful and victorious time, I had never before witnessed. May this same good work progress and spread, till the entire cause is affected by it. It is just the work that must precede the latter rain, and the loud cry of the third message.

I now appreciate a period of rest and retirement, that I may replenish my wasted energies, and more fully prepare to act my humble part in the great work before us. I rest well, and expect to be stronger in the spring than I have been for years. Brethren, pray for me that I may make the most I can of the privilege I now enjoy.

Last Sabbath I met with the church in this place, and spoke to them twice on the conversion needed at this stage of the message; and the words spoken seemed to be appreciated.

Nov. 24. I wrote the above the week after I reached home; but through mistake it was not taken to the post office, and thus it has been delayed until this late hour. But from the experiments I have made in laboring with my hands, I am prepared to state for the encouragement of all, that I find myself in a better condition to labor physically than I have been for years. I can labor to advantage from six to ten hours a day, according to the kind of work I engage in. I see that though I feel the wear of past labors, yet I have been undergoing favorable changes healthwise. Thus far I have spoken to the church every Sabbath, and attended the prayer and social meetings. I desire to keep the object of my coming East in view, viz.: to gather more strength to spend in promoting the cause of present truth.

D. T. BOURDEAU.