Interest Increased by Opposition by W. A. C.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 9, 1909

Interest Increased by Opposition

By W. A. C.

REPORTING to the Field Tidings concerning tent-meetings being held at Sumter, S. C., by Elder Sydney Scott and himself, Brother W. M. Jackson says:—

“We are having good meetings, although the devil has been very active. One of the leading first-day preachers took the clippings from the paper of the arrest of Brother Sullivan Wareham and those associated with him in the charge of Sabbath-breaking, and tried to down the meetings here, but, praise the Lord, the more he said, the larger the crowds were, until we had reached the mark of about five hundred fifty, having every night from three hundred to five hundred. We are not able to accommodate them with seats. The interest is great. . . . The influence of the meetings here has spread out to a distance of at least sixty miles, as we had two or three here Sunday night that had heard them, and had come that distance to attend them.”

All this simply illustrates the truthfulness of Dr. Albert Barnes's comment on Acts 4:3, 4: “There is no lesson which men have been so slow to learn as that to oppose and persecute men is the very way to confirm them in their opinions, and to spread their doctrines.”

W. A. C.