What One July “Liberty” Helped to Do by A. J. S. B.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 22, 1910

What One July “Liberty” Helped to Do

By A. J. S. B.

ONE of our home missionary workers reports the following interesting incident as the result of his individual work:—

“I am enclosing a check for eight subscriptions for Liberty. I also enclose check for ten subscriptions for which I am paying myself. I think all these will become subscribers. I loaned the July number to the wife of one prominent business man in this city for her to read to him. He was trying to have all his family join the Catholic Church. He had been brought up in that faith, as had his wife’s father. The priest was called to baptize their young daughter, but he refused to do so until he was paid twelve dollars, his charge for this service. The man promised to pay all as soon as he earned it; but the priest refused to baptize until the money was in hand. “This opened the eyes of these good people, and they never went to the Catholic Church again. The reading of the July Liberty to her husband opened his eyes also, and they decided to join the United Brethren Church, as it was the nearest to their home.

The very next Sunday after reading to these people, I showed them Father Enright’s thousand-dollar offer for a Bible proof of the sacredness of Sunday. They decided to hand it to their pastor the following Sunday.

“Last week I met one of the Protestant pastors to whom I had sent a copy of the Protestant Magazine during the past year. In answer to my question, he said he liked it very much, and had sent in to the publishers nine subscriptions besides his own. When I thanked him, he asked me my name, as we had never met before. He gave me a hearty handshake, and seemed glad to meet me.”

What this worker has done through a little judicious personal work can easily be done by hundreds, yes, thousands, of other Seventh-day Adventists in whose hearts burns the home missionary zeal.

A. J. S. B.