A Quarterly Awakens Interest in Truth

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 28, 1915

A Quarterly Awakens Interest in Truth

The following interesting incident, from the Australasian Record, shows how the Lord can use even a Sabbath School Lesson Quarterly to awaken an interest in the truth: “In the sowing of gospel seed beside all waters, some seeds find fertile soil. Brother E. D. Thomas, in South India, relates that one hot day, beneath the equatorial sun, an elderly gentleman came into the mission compound at Nazareth. The traveler had a booklet [the Sabbath School Quarterly on Topical Studies on the Message] which he handed to Brother Thomas, inquiring whether the Seventh-day Adventists published it. On receiving an affirmative reply, his joy was manifestly great. He said: ‘I have come walking such a long distance [fifty miles] to see the faces of the people who believe in such a grand truth as is revealed by this booklet, and to get acquainted with them. This book has been my spiritual meat in my old days. I have spent hours upon hours under the banyan tree near my house, reading and studying it.’ He remained a few days at the mission, and returned a firm believer in the truths of the Sabbath and the near coming of Jesus. He took a quantity of literature with him.”