Cutting Loose by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 15, 1909

Cutting Loose

By W. A. S.

A FEW weeks before the Conference an Ohio brother wrote about Madagascar as an unentered field, asking if there were any plans under way by which he, a missionary nurse, could serve in opening such a field. As the Mission Board had no plans for Madagascar, it was suggested to this brother that he might well consider South America's needy fields, and he was asked if he could go on short notice if a call came.

“At the present writing,” he replied, “we are not in shape to leave on short notice.” He had on his hands a country property, the Mountain Springs Sanitarium, near Cleveland. A few weeks later he was at the Conference, and is now on the way to Bolivia.

As he was leaving, we asked Brother F. A. Stahl how he got free so quickly. He said that he felt he ought not to be so tied up that he could not respond if the call came. He began to look for a buyer. “You will never sell,” people told him, “except to some sanitarium company.” “It seemed impossible,” Brother Stahl said, “to get untied.” But with the conviction that he ought to be free to respond, if needed in lands where there are few witnesses for the message or none at all, he went out into the woods and definitely surrendered the whole situation to the Lord.

Working with his prayers, he quickly found a buyer who wanted the property as a private residence. Thus he was at the Conference, with his family, and with means to advance the transportation to Bolivia at a time when the Mission Board treasury was depleted.

Where there is a will, there is a way—if it is God's way. W. A. S.