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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jan 18, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 3.

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Ceylon

By Harry Armstrong

COLPETTY.—As a result of our tent-meetings, several have been led to see many truths, including the Sabbath of the Lord. We are praying that they may have grace to fully embrace it and keep it holy. One man, with his wife, was threatened with excommunication if he continued to come to the tent and accepted the views of Seventh-day Adventists. Last Sunday morning, when they went to their church, they were asked if they believed the doctrines taught by us, and they answered “Yes.” They were then excommunicated, and turned out of the “synagogue.” They came to my bungalo, and we had prayer and a Bible study together. We also arranged a meeting for every Sunday morning in their bungalo, where they will gather in their friends to hear the word of God. This brother was also dismissed from his work, because of his integrity and love for the truth. Others are also passing through persecution and trial. We do pray that the Lord may strengthen them by his power and grace.
Several of the ministers here have visited their flocks, warning them against the meetings in the tent. But we rejoice to say that some of their sheep, having grown thin and feeble on the barren moors of human tradition, desire to be fed in green pastures, and they still continue to come. We are called “sheep-stealers” by some, but we rejoice in knowing that some poor wandering sheep are being received back into the true fold of Christ.
There is much to encourage us in this work. It is true we have to do much patient toiling, and often we have seemed to toil in vain; but some are being gathered in, and we believe that here, after patient, faithful labor, will be found a loyal people, keeping the commandments of God, and having the faith of Jesus. HARRY ARMSTRONG.