The Spirit of Inquiry by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 13, 1915

The Spirit of Inquiry

By W. A. S.

WORKERS in South Africa say that a new spirit of inquiry for light upon the prophetic scriptures is surely spreading widely among the people.

“I recognize that you are the only people who can tell us these things.” So a business man in another town wrote to Elder H. J. Edmed the other day, offering cooperation in arranging for lectures on fulfilling prophecy.

At the workers’ meeting last week, Sister Edmed said in her testimony of gratitude to God for the manner in which he is leading the workers to interested souls: “Never in the twenty-six years of my connection with this message has the outlook appeared so encouraging; never have I seen such a spirit of earnest inquiry and such readiness to hear among the people; never have I seen such evidence that the Lord is working with power to advance the truth. It seems truly a touch of the latter rain, a sign that the Lord is going before us to prepare the way for a new experience in the work in South Africa.”

For this new experience, in deeper fullness, the little band of workers in the Cape Conference are unitedly praying, and in the churches the rank and file of the believers are cooperating.

After one of Elder Edmed’s meetings last week, a woman said to him: “I have seen events leading on to a crisis these three years past; and I have prayed God to send some one who would tell me the truth about these things that are coming upon the earth. God has heard my prayer,” she added, “and last Sabbath I kept the Sabbath of the Lord for the first time.”

As the workers think of the indifference and prejudice of years ago, and now see how hearts are being stirred up to inquire of Seventh-day Adventists for light, they are filled with rejoicing. The new time has come evidently in South Africa.

W. A. S. Cape Town.