Our Literature Appeals to Him by S. A. Ruskjer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 21, 1916

Our Literature Appeals to Him

By S. A. Ruskjer

A few days ago I shared my seat in a crowded railway coach with Dr. —, who is at the head of the Congregational Church in three States.

As soon as he found out that I was a Seventh-day Adventist, he began to talk about our activity as a people and the splendid literature we are circulating. Among other things, he said that Seventh-day Adventist literature appealed to him as being fair and reliable. He further stated that he was interested in our position on the war question. He said he had read in several papers about some lectures on the war question delivered in many cities by one Elder Daniells, but that he had never been fortunate enough to be present when such a lecture was given; I had several copies of Elder Daniells’s lectures in my grip, and handed him one. He read every word of it while we were speeding along, and when he had finished he said, “I am sure you people hold the right position on the prophecies, and everything that takes place in the world confirms your position.”

I had a good visit with the gentleman, and I trust our visit was profitable to both. However, the point I have in mind in writing this is the fact that we have literature of which we need not be ashamed, and that fact ought to cause us to be tenfold more active in distributing it. Let the world know what we as a people are doing. There is no better way to give that information to the world than by distributing hundreds of copies of the Harvest Ingathering Signs this year. Let us make use of every golden opportunity to do home missionary work.

S. A. RUSKJER.