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Experiences That Encourage

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 4, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 11.

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Experiences That Encourage

By C. C. MORLAN

(From canvassers’ letters)
“I LEFT my book with a Spanish Catholic woman last Sunday so that her husband could see it when he came from his work. When I went back, she said: ‘I want that book, and be sure to bring it the fifteenth of February. In reading it I find that Saturday is the Sabbath, and I have been keeping the wrong sabbath. If God will help me, I will obey his law from now on. Bring me some tracts from which I can learn more about that.’”
Our Spanish minister is now giving this woman Bible studies.
“As I have canvassed this year, and followed up my work by calling on the people a few weeks after the books were delivered, my heart has been made glad to see how the people are interested. They tell me that they have lent their books, and that they are being read several times.”
“At one place where I called, the woman informed me that she was bowed in prayer asking God for more light when I rapped at the door. She decided at once to take the book, saying that she believed I had been sent to her in direct answer to prayer. Since reading the book ‘Heralds of the Morning,’ she has been telling her neighbors of the second coming of Christ.
“While calling at another home two weeks after delivering the book, I found several women present; they had been studying the book (‘Heralds of the Morning’) and praying. As I knocked, the woman of the house came to the door, with her face all aglow, and said: ‘Brother, you are doing a good work; keep on. These persons are deeply affected by the influence of that book.’”
Such experiences should help us all to realize more fully the influence of the printed page in these stirring times. Shall we not all put forth greater effort to get our books into the hands of the people?
C. C. MORLAN.