Alabama by J. H. LAWRENCE

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 27, 1908

Alabama

By J. H. LAWRENCE

MOBILE.—It affords me much pleasure to add our small testimony to the list of progress. Our company was organized into a church last August as a result of a tent effort. Its development since has been marked with success, for which we praise our Heavenly Father. The result of the tent effort here can not be truly estimated. In conversation with a well-known lawyer of this city a few weeks ago, he said, “You have done a great deal of good here. You must come to my office in the evenings and see me. I want to talk with you.”

The ministers of the place have opposed our work, yet the Lord has given us victory. One minister who made strong opposition and burned our papers is now thoroughly convinced of his mistake, and is publicly acknowledging it. Another promises to join us with his whole congregation. He needs faith and courage and our earnest and fervent prayers.

Quite a number of others are interested, and I hope to be able to report in the near future some new believers. We have not a building of our own to meet in yet, but are selling the “Specials,” the proceeds of which go to our building fund. We have a mission school also, in which we have enrolled nearly eighty students. They are selling the Youth’s Instructor. The outlook for the work seems good. The horizon grows dark at times, but our Captain is at the helm. We beseech an interest in your intercessions at the throne of grace.

J. H. LAWRENCE.