Mississippi by James Bellinger; Carrie Bellinger

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 1, 1906

Mississippi

By James Bellinger; Carrie Bellinger

HATLEY.—It has been some time since we reported from this needy field; but God has been with us all the time, and blessed us. Our courage is good, our faith strong, and our aims are high. We have been located at Hatley this winter. Mrs. Bellinger will close a four months' term of school the twenty-third of February, which has proved a great blessing to both teacher and students, and also to the church here.

Our school enrolled twenty this winter, and we feel to praise God for the advancement made in so short a time by the students, both mentally and spiritually. We have had an intelligent class of young people and children, and we are sure that a few of them will be actively engaged in helping to spread the third angel's message from now on.

This is a large and very needy field. We need more workers, and are praying the Lord of the harvest to send forth more laborers into the harvest-field. We want the Spirit of God to impress upon the hearts of our dear brethren in the Northern States, where there has so much work been done, and where there are so many workers going over the same ground again and again, that in these Southern fields there are hundreds, yes, thousands of towns that have never heard of this precious truth. Come and help us, brethren, we need you, and God calls you to come.

God will hold us accountable for souls that we might have warned, but did not. We can give the trumpet an uncertain sound by staying in our comfortable homes, and thus say by our words and actions, My Lord delayeth his coming. Many professed people of God are going to wake up too late and be obliged to say, “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.” God help us all to wake up, and work as never before. As soon as our school is out, we expect to enter new territory.

JAMES BELLINGER, CARRIE BELLINGER.