Interesting Incident by T. M. Steward

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 26, 1870

Interesting Incident.

By T. M. Steward

ON my way home from Conference I was distributing tracts on the cars, and handed one to a man sitting behind me. As soon as he saw what it was, he wished me to give him one of each kind I had. He said he had seen some of our tracts before, and was much interested in reading them. He fully agreed with us on the destruction of the wicked. We then spoke of the Sabbath. He said that his father was a Baptist preacher, the first man that baptized by immersion in Scotland. He was imprisoned in England, for his faith; and after he was released, he claimed that the Bible Sabbath came on the seventh day of the week, and began to keep it; and as this was to bring new troubles to him, he concluded to emigrate to this country; so he did, and settled in the State of New York, and was a Seventh-day Baptist till he died. This man wants you to send him the Review, and he will send you the pay when he gets it, so he can see the address.

I shall never forget the solemn and interesting meetings I enjoyed while in Battle Creek. The work of the third angel's message looks more sacred to me than ever, and I want all my energies consecrated to the work. I want to meet the mind of the Spirit of God, and thus be in harmony with his people and his work. I mean to study his word more, to realize more the solemn realities of this time, and to store my mind with useful knowledge, that when the Lord calls for the loud cry of this message, I may be ready to engage in it understandingly. Now he is drilling us that we may form a veteran corps for the final issue of this message. Pray for me. T. M. STEWARD.