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Week of Prayer at Mount Vernon Academy

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jan 6, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 1.

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Week of Prayer at Mount Vernon Academy

By B. G. Wilkinson

THOUGH we have witnessed many precious weeks of prayer at Mount Vernon, we never saw before anything like the one this year. The Spirit of God seemed to be present with special power to bring men and women to God. The Lord honored the prayers which Elder N. S. Ashton and the faculty had offered for a special blessing on the school during the week of prayer. The last Friday chapel exercise began at nine and lasted nearly three hours.
On the last Sabbath at eleven o’clock, when church members and students came together, the powerful movings of God’s Spirit were witnessed. Three among the young people decided for the first time to become Seventh-day Adventists. Not one who had been drifting into frivolity, theatergoing, indifference, and scorn, was left; all went to the altar in broken-hearted contrition and surrender. Some remarkable victories were witnessed.
Following this revival service a special testimony meeting was held, in which all the young people arose to testify that henceforth their only aim in life was to win souls for Christ.
B. G. WILKINSON.