Of Such Is the Kingdom of Heaven

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 7, 1911

“Of Such Is the Kingdom of Heaven”

ELDER H. KUNIYA, of Japan, reports seven souls baptized in the ocean at Kagoshima, as first-fruits of a tent-meeting in that city. He sends the photograph of a little girl who also desired baptism, with her aunt. She was but seven years old, and was advised to wait. “She felt very badly about it,” Elder Kuniya writes, “and could not rest that night. Her mother later tried to send her to school on the Sabbath; but the little girl remembered that it had been said in one of the sermons that those who knowingly break God’s commandments can never enter the gates of pearl or walk the golden streets. She refused to go to school on the Sabbath, saying: ‘Heaven is more precious than school for me. Please, mama, do not send me to school on the Sabbath day.’ I will send her picture to encourage others. Two boys also started to keep the Sabbath, but failed because of persecution by their parents. Are not these such as will yet break into the light in the closing days of the latter rain? We are of good courage. Pray for us at this time of prayer. We pray for you.”