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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 19, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 42.

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An Oasis in a Desert

By W. H. Pascoe

ON being informed of an interested family in Wellington, New Zealand, I visited their comfortable home and found the woman hungering and thirsting after righteousness. From the book “Coming King” she had learned something about the message, and in her new-found joy was giving what she knew to her neighbors and friends. She informed me that, having felt condemned for working on Saturday, and not realizing any compunction from working on Sunday, for some time past she had done her work on Friday and rested on Saturday, and intended to continue to do so unless she could be shown from the Scriptures that she was wrong. In this resolve she was encouraged by her husband.
It seemed like an oasis in a desert, a refreshing to my soul, to listen to her earnest questions, and then to see her countenance brighten as the light of truth illuminated her mind. When I left, she gave me five shillings which she had collected in her Sabbath offerings.
Such cases cheer our hearts and assure us that Jesus, with and for whom we labor, will surely cause his truth to triumph, and will bring every honest heart to a saving knowledge of the truth.
W. H. PASCOE.