California by Mrs. E. E. Parlin

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 19, 1910

California

By Mrs. E. E. Parlin

SAN FRANCISCO.—A few weeks ago reference was made in the REVIEW to certain persons in Greece who had become interested in the truth through correspondence with recent converts in San Francisco, who were formerly members of the Greek Catholic Church. The following is a copy, with names omitted, of an interesting letter dated April 1, 1910, just received from that country:—

“Thank God, am well. I wish the same for you all. All my friends go back on me, and my neighbors talk against me very bad; they call me ‘Hebrew Mason,’ and say I and my house are full of devils. So you see for yourself how hard it is for Seventh-day Adventists to live in Greece. Some threaten to set fire to my house. It is very hard for me to find employment here, and observe the Sabbath of the Lord; so I try my best to live on my small pension. This is only six dollars a month, so you can imagine how I live, but I don’t care.

“I thank the Lord, and feel very proud to say I am a Seventh-day Adventist. By the grace of our Lord I have observed the Sabbath since Oct. 24, 1909; also by the grace of our Lord I received baptism here at Athens on March 8, 1910, by Brother R. S. Greaves. He came down from Smyrna, and stopped with me eight days; then he left for Albania for two or three months, after which he is coming back to see me. When Brother Greaves comes, if God wills, I shall go with him to Smyrna. . . . I thank you all for introducing me to the Sabbath of the Lord; also am not ashamed to say that you brought me out of darkness, so now I am a Seventh-day Adventist. Brother Greaves told me I am the first man to be baptized in Greece. Thank God! I hope I have part in the New Jerusalem with you all. . . . I had about a dozen pictures, but now I have none, because I burned them all about forty days ago. Ex. 20:4-6.”

MRS. E. E. PARLIN.