p. 17 | Home Missionary Experiences by E. M. GRAHAM

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 17, 1914

Home Missionary Experiences

By E. M. GRAHAM

Appreciated a Little Kindness

“I found a young man in a hunter’s cabin, across the creek opposite our house, on a wet, stormy evening. He had a swollen wrist, with a reddish-looking lump. He had nothing to eat, and his clothes were very wet, as he had walked seven miles with the wind and the rain blowing in his face.

“I went to our cabin and told mother, and while she prepared supper I brought him over in our boat. We gave him supper, dried his clothes, and mother dressed his wrist. We learned that he had been brought up a Roman Catholic, and the conversation turned to Bible subjects. He asked many questions about purgatory, the state of the dead, and other subjects, and seemed to receive light. We gave him one of our candle-shaped messengers (some tracts rolled and tied with ribbon).

“In the morning, mother again dressed his wrist, and gave him breakfast. I took him across to his cabin, made a fire for him, as it was raining and he could not travel until it cleared. He began reading his candle-shaped messenger. When he bade us good-by, he said he did not know how to thank us for our kindness.”

When the seed is sown, and watered by kind attention, we may look for results.

From a Self-Supporting Missionary

“I have a very interesting case of a little child eighteen months old who is suffering with tubercular meningitis. The doctor said there was no hope of recovery. The father, being a former patient of mine, called on me to go to his house to see the child. On examining it, I told him there was no hope of its recovery as far as human skill is concerned. With a few words of cheer and encouragement I directed his mind to the Great Physician, who has never lost a case; and on finding him interested in the subject of prayer, I related some Bible instances of healing in which God heard prayer for the sick. His wife, feeling her hopeless position, fell on her knees beside the child and called for me to pray. This I did, and we all felt on rising from our knees that God had heard our humble prayers, and that he would do the right thing. From that time the child has improved so much that the doctor is puzzled, confessing he does not know what to make of it. We have had several prayers since, and some readings from ‘Ministry of Healing,’ which have led to a desire to read the book through. After three weeks’ improvement the doctor said yesterday that the patient was out of danger, so you see how the Lord has been working. We are now arranging for Bible readings, and the husband has even expressed his wish to keep the Sabbath. Such experiences strengthen our hold on God, and prove to us all that our Heavenly Father is just as willing to heal the sick in these days as when Christ was upon the earth.”

This brother and his wife run treatment rooms with which, as William Carey said of his cobbling, they ‘pay expenses.’ Their life work is to give this warning message, and the Lord has signally blessed them. A number of excellent people have been brought into the truth through their efforts.

Later this brother wrote of the first Bible reading he held with this family and another person. The husband and wife had expressed themselves as favorably impressed with the truth. He has another patient, a well-to-do farmer, who has expressed his desire for Bible studies. A Catholic woman has also become much interested, and has asked him to tell her more of the interesting Word.

E. M. GRAHAM.