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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 16, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 43.

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A deacon was speaking to a visitor about his pastor's want of success. No doubt he had often reminded his pastor of the same with much condolence. "Well," said the visitor, "what is the proof?" "Proof? Why last year only one person joined the church!" "Sir, who was that one?" "I don't know." "You must know what was his name?" He looks into the church book, and finds that the name of the man who was the only one added to the church is "Robert Moffat." Then said the other, "Sir, when you added that man to your church you added generation upon generation; and yet you have been making your pastor's life bitter by the dismal toll of that statistical complaint, 'only one.' Do you know what they once rang the bells of Heaven for? It was over the conversion of one sinner—only one; and it was there reckoned to be such a great success that it made 'joy in the presence of the angels.'"