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From a Shut-In

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 30, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 16.

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From a Shut-In

By Francis T. Sparks

I HAVE been a shut-in for twenty-four years, and so severely afflicted with rheumatism that I have not walked a step for nineteen years. Last spring some Seventh-day Adventist literature fell into my hands, and I was so much interested in the truths presented that I kept on studying. Finally, in October, I went to Shreveport, La., and Elder W. P. McLennan gave me Bible studies. The first of December I united with the Seventh-day Adventist church at that place.
I am still studying the message, and trying to prepare myself for work in the Lord's vineyard. I wish you to join with me in praying that if it is the divine will, I may be healed, so that I may have an active part in giving the third angel's message to a world in darkness. I long to go out and tell others how great things God has done for me. However, I can say, His will, not mine, be done. FRANCIS T. SPARKS.