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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 29, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 39.

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Good Words From Spain

By Frank S. Bond

FRANK S. BOND
DURING the past six months three of our canvassers have spent most of their time at work in the provinces of Alicante and Murcia, and I am sure you will be glad to learn some of the immediate results. While going from house to house in the city of Cartagena, Brother Vicente Garcia called at the home of a lady, and showed his books and papers. She became greatly interested, and asked many questions. Brother Garcia held a number of Bible studies with her, and her desire to know the truth increased.
The pastors, seeing her interest in the teachings of Seventh-day Adventists, became greatly agitated. Hoping to shake her confidence in the work carried forward by us, they placed in her hands a work entitled, “The Doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists Exposed and Refuted.” But a careful study of this little work only served to strengthen the determination of our sister to live in harmony with God’s truth. “Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee.” Ps. 76: 10.
A short time after our brethren had called upon this lady, she found it necessary to accompany her daughter to Alicante. During their stay there she felt that she should not return home without first becoming more familiar with the message, which was now so dear to her. Valencia is one hundred two miles from Alicante; and notwithstanding that she is in only moderate circumstances, her love for the truth compelled this lady to come here with her daughter. Her face fairly beamed with joy because of the light which God had permitted to shine upon her pathway. We enjoyed very much the privilege of spending a few days studying different points of truth with her. When she left for her home, she was convinced of the whole truth, and was determined to be obedient to it.
When she had borne witness to the truth in her home church, she was soon disfellowshipped. Since then she has been faithful, walking in the light, and one of her step-daughters, a young lady twenty-two years of age, is obeying the truth with her. God is working by his Holy Spirit upon hearts in Spain.
When our colporteurs reached the city of Murcia, they called upon some friends of the sisters in Cartagena, and these also received the message gladly. A man with his wife and nineteen-year-old daughter are keeping the Sabbath. I am glad to be able to report that as a result of the faithful efforts of our canvassers, the above-mentioned persons are walking in the light of God’s truth, and their trust is in the Lord.
These cases demonstrate the importance of our canvassing work. How could we reach the thousands of towns and cities of this land, were it not for our great variety of literature, and our faithful canvassers, who carry it to the homes of the people? Our well-organized canvassing department is one of the most important factors in the advancement of this great work to the ends of the earth. The forty-nine provinces of this picturesque country, with their eighteen million inhabitants, afford an abundance of territory to the canvasser. Here is plenty of room for fifty strong, consecrated American canvassers. We trust that our people in the home land will ever remember at the throne of grace the work in Spain,—“the Land of the Invincible Inquisition.”
Paterna, Valencia.