p. 15 | J. H. ROGERS by J. H. Rogers

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 11, 1904

J. H. ROGERS

By J. H. Rogers

California

RIVERSIDE.—In December, 1902, we came from South Dakota to Los Angeles, Cal., the rigorous climate of Dakota being too severe for my wife’s health. Our work and associations while in South Dakota very much endeared that people to us. After arriving in Los Angeles, I built us a little cottage home, worked as a carpenter about one year and a half, and in the meantime went out among our people and churches at the suggestion of the conference president and the request of our people. I enjoyed this work very much.

Nearly all my early associates in the message have laid down the armor in death, to await the glad morn when He shall come to claim his own, and “take them home to glory.” Some have “fallen out by the way;” for O, while it is a glorious time for the people of God who are heeding the bugle call, “On to victory,” it is a dreadful time for the faithless who are “murmuring by the way.”

Having watched the movements of this cause for over forty years, I am more sure than ever that God is leading this message and people to a glorious consummation. The move to Washington with the work has to my mind been exactly in the Lord’s leading for the speedy spread of the message to every nation and kindred and tongue and people. And what an opportunity is afforded now for those who have means, to invest in the cause of God! In a little time from now hoarded capital will be of no use or value. Remember, brethren, if this message is to all the world in this generation, now just now, is the time to show how much we believe it. When I see worldly inducements influencing this people to make investments, I know that the god of this world is “blinding their minds.” Surely we are standing on the crumbling sands of the last days of human probation.

At a recent meeting of the conference committee I was requested to locate in Riverside to look after the interest of the work here. Elder Simpson has done a good work in this city in bringing quite a number into the truth, and building a comfortable house of worship. He has since been called to Los Angeles to carry on evangelistic work.

So we are now located and at work in a city of about fifteen thousand inhabitants, some sixty miles east of Los Angeles. We feel very much the need of divine guidance and the spirit of wisdom to work for the master.