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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jul 20, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 29.

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Canada

By J. W. Boynton

PONOKA, ALBERTA.—About three years ago a good brother was distributing some Signs, and gave one to a widow, who soon became so much interested that when he came again, she subscribed for the paper. She soon became convinced of the truth, and, with her children, began to keep the Sabbath. Some months ago I received from the Review Office the Alberta list of subscribers, and there found a name I had not heard of before. So I wrote to the address given, and weeks later received a letter from this sister, saying she was keeping the Sabbath, and inviting me to visit her, which I promised to do at my first opportunity.
“On my way home from the General Conference, I made a side trip to visit this family. Here, in the midst of the snow-crowned Canadian Rockies, I found this good sister with her family, seeking to hold up the light of truth in a coal camp. She had never seen any Seventh-day Adventists except the one who left the papers three years ago.She has been taking the REVIEW, Signs, and Little Friend, and is quite well posted in the message, and is in full sympathy with it in all parts. Some weeks ago she sent a diamond brooch, to sell for the work in Washington. Yesterday she took off her rings, and gave them to me to sell for the work in China. And then we went down to a beautiful mountain stream, and I buried this dear sister and two of her daughters with the Lord in baptism. Another daughter will be baptized later. She lives twelve miles away.
This sister is poor in this world's goods, but she gladly pays tithe, and makes offerings as she can. Last night she ordered “Great Controversy,” “Patriarchs and Prophets,” “Daniel and the Revelation,” Youth's Instructor, and Life and Health.
This is but another evidence of what our good papers are doing, under the providence of God. O that more of our people could realize how much good could be accomplished by scattering the printed page “like the leaves of autumn”! J. W. BOYNTON.