Wandering Feet Recalled by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 27, 1910

Wandering Feet Recalled

By W. A. S.

WE know by the promises of God that his care is over all his works. “If I take the wings of the morning,” said the psalmist, “and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.”

Here is an experience, reported from one of the uttermost parts of the earth, bearing witness to the fact that the Lord knows the path that straying feet may take in the wilds of Africa, and that his angels can turn the wanderer about. We know it from the Word, and believe it; but these incidents of actual experience—simple though they may be—help to make it real to us. Brother E. Kotz, of our German East Africa Mission, writes from Europe, where he has been seeing the four Gospels through the press in the Chasu language:—

I will tell you briefly of a little experience we had at Kihurio. One of our Christians, who is called Filipo, had left us. We did not know exactly where he was. As I was on the point of leaving Africa for Europe, I had a prayer-meeting with our station boys, Christians and heathen, and asked them to pray for our Filipo, that he might be led to come back. They all did so unitedly.

The next morning I wrote a letter, two of our boys added some words, and I sent a man to carry it to the pastor of a Protestant mission two days’ journey away. The pastor is a friend of mine, and I asked him to look for our Filipo, and hand him my letter if he could find him. The next morning my friend was out making inquiry for the boy. But that morning also, some one knocked on the door of our mission house at Kihurio. Who was it?—Filipo!

“Did you get my letter?”

“No,” he answered.

“Well, how did you come to return just at this time?”

“I had no peace,” he said; “I felt impressed that I ought to go to Kihurio.”

So, when we commenced to pray, the Lord heard our prayer and began to send the answer. We all feel much strengthened by such experiences.

We, too, thank God that all those African paths are known to the angels. This is the ground of our confidence that a few short years will see the light of the advent message piercing every region of the Dark Continent.

W. A. S.