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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 20, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 8.

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Porto Rico

By S. A. OBERG

S. A. OBERG
This morning while the sea was thundering its heavy surf artillery outside, in a baptistery made by the Lord's own hands Elder Wm. Steele baptized five precious souls. Four of these were natives of one of the English islands, the other was a Porto Rican who had been a Catholic from childhood. Four others are keeping the Sabbath, and will doubtless follow their Lord in baptism a little later.
For the encouragement of our faithful book and paper workers, it might be well to add that this Porto Rican learned of the Sabbath from the Señales, our good Spanish monthly magazine. When he was visited with “Coming King,” he at once wanted to know which day the book taught was the Sabbath, and said that he had been waiting for some one to show him how to observe the day.
Two of the others had been studying “Bible Readings,” and had begun to pray that God would send some one to study the Bible with them. Another had been speaking to a friend of her desire to know more about the Scriptures, so when the friend was visited, she passed on the good word. As a result, the friend is now against the truth, while the honest soul seeking for light is numbered among God's chosen ones here. The other is a woman over seventy years old, of good report among all who know her.
During the week of prayer, as these believers all came together, from their different places, in a union meeting with the others who have known the truth before, our hearts were made tender and our eyes filled with tears, as we heard the testimonies revealing God's all-wise providence in bringing the message for their salvation.
There are others who are now inquiring, so we have rented a large room and fitted it up for a chapel, in a section where all the believers and those studying with us can meet and worship together. We know the end is near, so we are hastening onward the closing message, and God is richly rewarding every effort put forth to hasten the coming of our Saviour and King.
Pray for us that the persecution that the other churches are bringing upon those who are now seeking for light may be the means of driving others to our Master, to be numbered among the remnant.