Montana

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 24, 1903

THE following stirring report comes from Brethren R. D. Quinn, L. A. Gibson, and Charles Rider, who have been holding meetings at Rockvale. We copy it from the Montana Bivouac:—

“We arrived here January 13, and immediately began meetings in the Hobbs schoolhouse, situated in the center of the Rock Creek valley. At the opening meeting, forty were in attendance; the second night sixty; and the third, one hundred. The attendance rapidly

increased until fully one hundred and sixty crowded into the small room.

“It soon became necessary for people to bring chairs, boxes, and boards from their homes in order to secure seats. So intense has been the interest to hear the message, that people have come an hour and a half before meeting in order to secure seats, some feeling compelled to go home after driving miles because they could not find comfortable standing room. The country has been shaken for miles around, people having come from neighboring towns and as far as ten miles by team. We are now in the days to which we have long looked forward, when thousands would eagerly listen to this advent message, and be gathered out from the world and the fallen churches to take their stand with those who are keeping all the commandments of God. Great power has attended the effort here, and all are now deciding their eternal destiny. At this writing twenty-six have begun to keep the Sabbath, and still others are interested, and seem not far from the kingdom. The dragon has not been asleep by any means, but ‘they that be with us are more than they that be with them.’”

“It means something to wage this aggressive warfare in these days; but when we learn that the efficiency of our labor depends upon the application of the truth to the heart by the Holy Spirit, rather than by might or power, self is taken out of the way, and God is given a chance to work. The Holy Spirit is poured out, men and women are drawn by an unseen power, and they come eagerly to hear the word of God preached, for they report ‘that God is in you of a truth.’”