p. 21 | Some Results of Distributing Our Literature

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 12, 1908

Some Results of Distributing Our Literature

By Chas. G. Bellah

ABOUT twenty-five years ago a sister living in New York sent the tract, “Who Changed the Sabbath?” and copies of the Signs and the REVIEW to the wife of a Methodist minister living at Poplar Bluff, Mo. This minister’s wife, not being able to answer the truths set forth, appealed to her husband for those Sunday texts of his, and to their great astonishment he found none.

More tracts followed. Within six months the truth regarding the state of the dead was seen and accepted. Next came the Sabbath. The final decision was made by both the minister and his wife the same day, the same hour, although neither knew of the step the other was taking. He had been away preaching, and when he came in to tell his wife the good news, he found her also rejoicing in the Sabbath blessing.

Three years later a tent-meeting was called for. Elders J. G. Wood, C. B. Hughes, and James Klostermeyer came, and soon a church of twenty members was organized. So many of the leading members of this minister’s flock became Seventh-day Adventists that the church building and grounds fell into the hands of our people.

The following diagram tells only a part of the story:—

Eternity alone will reveal all the forces for good set in motion by these few tracts. This is no exaggerated story. The writer is personally acquainted with the persons mentioned, and rejoices in the truth to-day because those few tracts were sent from New York on their heavenly mission twenty-five years ago.

May these figures be indelibly impressed on the mind and heart of every reader, and may each go and do likewise.

CHAS. G. BELLAH, General Canvassing Agent of Central Union Conference.