Taking the Blessing Home
By W. A. S.
THE Lord told the man whom he healed at Gadara to go home to his friends and tell what great blessings he had received. Thank God, the blessings of the camp-meeting season did not end with those meetings. Every blessing came from heaven, by the Spirit and the Word, and the same Word and Spirit are with the seeker at home. And by witnessing to friends and neighbors of the great things done for the soul, the blessings are only multiplied. Here is a word from Elder Rickard, of Quebec, concerning the experience of a brother and his wife whom the Lord blessed at the camp-meeting, bringing them into line again after years of wandering. He says:— Brother and Sister ——, who had not kept the Sabbath for fifteen years, were baptized at the camp-meeting, and returned to their home and told of their experience. The family at home consisted of two sons and two daughters and a daughter-in-law. After talking over the rich blessings they had received and praying with the family, they all decided to obey. All came nine miles to the Fitch Bay church the first Sabbath after the return from the camp-meeting. Last Sabbath I baptized four of the family. I trust the good spirit of that camp-meeting may work until the whole conference is leavened with its power. It is an illustration of the power of the testimony that the forgiven soul may bear to his fellows. That which we have seen and felt of the blessing of God in our own hearts, that let us tell to others at home and abroad. W. A. S.