p. 15 | H. LOUIE MIGNOTT by H. Louie Mignott

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 6, 1913

H. LOUIE MIGNOTT

By H. Louie Mignott

Jamaica

AFTER returning from my trip in Westmoreland and St. Elizabeth, I had the privilege of seeing the long-needed church building at Bryant’s Hill, reared on the first day of July. While working on the Post Road and Goshen church buildings, we laid plans for raising means and preparing materials for this building. The brethren at this place are few, but they are full of zeal for the word and work of the Lord. Having a mind to work, they are doing all in their power for the speedy completion of their building.

On July 20, six souls were added to the Post Road church, and two to the Goshen company, by baptism. July 24 I left Chapelton for Russell Hall. After the tent was pitched, Elder Hubert Fletcher, by request, preached on the evenings of August 3 and 4 to goodly audiences. Since then, the grand truths of the threefold message have been presented night after night. The sound has gone to the adjacent districts, awakening and disturbing the consciences of many. As a consequence, the ire of the dragon is aroused, and he is stirring up some to oppose God’s message. As it was with ancient Israel, so it is with modern. They knew not the time of their visitation. “For they that dwell at Jerusalem,” says the apostle, “and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.” Acts 13:27.

In like manner men are today condemning God’s message. Some, seeing the people attending the lectures at the tent and talking about the things to which they have listened, preach against us, and warn the people against attending our meetings. But, as they “can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth,” the Lord causes their wrath to “praise him,” and “the remainder” he restrains. So they are proving themselves, in God’s hand, excellent advertisers of our work and meetings. Our evening services are well attended. The word of God has lost none of its original power. “As a fire . . . and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces,” it is able to pull “down strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”

Last Monday evening a young man came into the tent, armed with a one-edged sword, a tract written by the Rev. R. A. Cevestus Duffan, entitled “Ten Brief Answers to Seventh-day Adventist Objections.” He came with assurance that the ten commandments were abolished and nailed to the cross. I asked him if he really believed that the law of God, the ten commandments, was abolished. He said, “Yes.” I then asked him to read Eph. 6:1, 2, which he did; after which I asked him to read the fifth precept on the law chart, and left him to think for a while. He saw the point clearly, that if the law had been abrogated, then every one of its precepts was also abolished, and for this reason the apostle could not have said that it “is right” to observe its fifth precept, as it would have been wrong for a man to keep that which the Lord had annulled. His stronghold was pulled down. He is now a Sabbath-keeper, and is rejoicing in the truths of God.

We are thankful to the Lord for what he has wrought for us. At the present time, September 10, there is a class of fourteen new converts preparing for baptism. Recently I went to the church to listen to a lecture on Law and Grace, by the pastor. After the service he invited me to his home, where for nearly two hours we had quite a pleasant talk on several Bible topics. On the same evening I gave a discourse,

according to previous arrangement, to a goodly number of his congregation and other interested listeners. I had my prophetic chart, and we studied the change of the law, from Dan. 7:25. They were greatly interested, and desired to listen to another public lecture, which I promised to give. Remember us in your prayers.