Bring Another Brother by John V. Hickmott

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 28, 1875

“Bring Another Brother.”

By John V. Hickmott

DURING the exhibition of 1867 in Paris, a minister met with an instance of direct labor for souls which he states he never can forget. In conversation with an engineer employed on one of the pleasure boats which ply on the Seine, the discovery was made that the man was a Christian, and on the inquiry being put, by what means he was converted, he replied, “My mate is a Christian, and continually he told me of the great love of Jesus Christ, and his readiness to save, and he never rested until I was a changed man. For it is a rule in our church that when a brother is converted, he must go and bring another brother; and when a sister is converted, she must go and bring another sister; and so more than a hundred of us have been recovered from Popery to the simplicity which is in Christ Jesus.” This is the way in which the gospel is to spread through the whole world. By the silent force of a consistent life, by the prevalence of importunate prayer, by the seasonable testimony of our lips in converse with our fellow-men, let us love to make Jesus known; for he has said, “Whosoever shall confess me before men, him also will I confess before my Father which is in Heaven.”—John V. Hickmott.