Saved From Fire by H. F. Courter

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 17, 1910

Saved From Fire

By H. F. Courter

WHILE a number of us were attending the annual California conference, our little chapel at Los Gatos met with an accident which would have destroyed it had not the good hand of our Lord interfered. On the evening of the second of February, at the close of the prayer-meeting, some one either threw down a lighted match upon the cushioned seat of a chair by the stand, or in putting out the light, blew the blaze inside of the lamp, so that after he had gone outdoors, the lamp exploded. As the curtains were drawn, no one saw the fire, which burned up the chair, burned a hole about a foot square through the floor, burned the wall, set fire to the cloth and paper lining to the house, and also to my large missionary map of the world, and went out. It burned up a large eight-dollar Bible and a number of other books. Every one who looks at the work of the fire and sees how it went almost around a large chart of the law of God, considers it one of the greatest wonders ever seen. As a church we praise and adore the God of heaven for his care.

H. F. COURTER.