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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 10, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 6.

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“This Is the Way”

By W. A. S.

RECALLING missionary experiences in the West Indian field some years ago, Elder E. W. Webster gives us the following story of the providential manner in which one seeker after truth was led into the right way:—
An intelligent native woman in — was going to the shops to buy some provisions for Sunday.
On the street she saw two women, well dressed, Bibles in hand, as if on their way to meeting.
“This is not Sunday,” she said to herself; “this is surely Saturday. What are those women going to church to-day for?”
She purchased her provisions and went home, still thinking about what she had seen.
That week she dreamed that she must get ready and go with the women the next Saturday.
When the day came round, she got ready, and went out on the street, and waited for the women to make their appearance; but she failed to find them. She could only wait, for she did not know who the women were, or where they were going on the day she had seen them.
The next week she dreamed that she must get ready the next Saturday, and the Lord would show her where to go. She started out, when the day came, walking about a mile across the city, and direct to our mission.
I was just well started with the sermon when I saw a stranger, a well-dressed native woman, come up into the hall and take a seat well toward the front. She gave good attention to the discourse.
After meeting I spoke to her, when she told me the story I have related, and added: “When I reached the bottom of the stairs here, the Lord said to me, ‘This is the place.’ I inquired of no one. I believe you have the truth.”
She began at once to keep the Sabbath, and after a little further study was baptized, and united with the church. She has been faithful under trial, and has worked hard to get the truth before others.
There is no suggestion of the fanciful about such an experience. But in a very direct and manifestly providential way the Lord led a willing heart to the place where his Word was being preached. In this case was fulfilled the promise: “And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it.” Isa. 30:21.
W. A. S.