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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Aug 25, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 34.

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Cause and Effect

By H. H. Hall

THE following is taken from a private letter recently received, and emphasizes the value of the judicious circulation of our publications:—
“During my work this last winter I had some interesting experiences. One was as follows: I was visiting at a certain home when a neighbor lady came in. I was introduced to her as the evangelist that was conducting the meeting at that place. Then the lady of the house handed her ‘Steps to Christ,’ which I had just sold her, and said, ‘There is a book that you ought to buy.’ ‘“Steps to Christ,”’ said the lady, ‘we have that book. Yes, and we have the book “Patriarchs and Prophets” also. Excepting the Bible, we think they are the best books we have ever seen.’ Then, turning to me, the neighbor lady said, ‘Are you in any way connected with these books?’ ‘I am,’ I replied. ‘Well,’ she continued, ‘my husband took The Signs of the Times for about six months, and he thinks that it is the best paper of the kind he ever saw. He kept every one of the copies, and reread them; then in a month or two he read them all again. Now he has loaned them to a neighbor, and has instructed him to be sure to return them, for he wants to read them again.’
“Well, you may be sure that when I went to see that family, I was welcome, and he gave me a year’s subscription to the Signs. I also sold him ‘Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation,’ ‘Andrews’ ‘History of the Sabbath,’ and some smaller books. That family is now studying the whole truth of the third angel’s message.
“The Signs is doing a splendid work, and I pray that it may ever give the gospel a certain sound.”
Those who have the opportunity of corresponding with our brethren and of meeting them in the field, know that such experiences as that recorded above are by no means rare.
Shall we not, then, take fresh courage, and put forth still greater efforts to bring the light of this soul-saving message to the people about us?
H. H. HALL.