Fruit Already Seen by E. W. Farnsworth

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 24, 1907

Fruit Already Seen

By E. W. Farnsworth

WE have good words to report from South Lancaster Academy. The year's work opened September 18, and the enrolment has already reached two hundred and fifty-one. This is thirty more than the enrolment for the whole time last year. If as many come this year as generally do after the school opens, we shall have at least three hundred before the end of the year. This shows that a new interest in education is springing up in the minds of our young people, and of their parents also.

That which will gratify both parents and patrons of the academy more than any thing else is to know that the blessing of God is in the school. Friday evening, following the opening, in the students’ prayer-meeting three gave their hearts to the Lord. The next Friday evening eleven more followed; and last Friday evening thirteen came forward for prayers. Sabbath, October 5, eleven were baptized and thirteen united with the church. The States of Vermont, New York, Connecticut, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Maine, also Washington, D. C., are represented by those that were baptized. At the communion service, held in the church in the afternoon, about two hundred and forty in all participated. It was a meeting that will long be remembered, for God was there. The results of the work so far seen are the first-fruits. Let us all pray that the harvest may be much more abundant and glorious. E. W. FARNSWORTH.