GEORGIA by Arthur W. Bartlett

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 27, 1900

GEORGIA

By Arthur W. Bartlett

SAVANNAH.—Four adults, each having families, have accepted present truth at this place. Three of these are prominent women who were members of a class organized for the study of the prophecies. They say that I was sent of the Lord to this class, with his last message of love and warning, and they are earnestly laboring for other members of the class, that they, too, may walk in this glorious light.

Though I rejoice that God has raised up a few light-bearers in this dark place, I rejoice yet more in the blessed experience of self-denying missionary work for the lost, which has opened my eyes to the fact that only as we are engaged directly or indirectly in self-denying labor for the lost and perishing, and not for those who have had the light, can we experience the full measure of the love, faith, and power of Christ. Christ in the fullness of his blessing is to be found only where his lost sheep are in the darkest and most deserted fields. If any are without the consolation of Christ, the comfort of his love, or the fellowship of his Spirit, let them at once engage in self-denying missionary work for the lost nearest their own door, and afterward for those less favored in this “worse than heathen field.” I wish that the whole body of Seventh-day Adventists might resolve themselves into one great home and foreign mission board, with every member an active missionary. Then, and only then, may we expect the baptism of the power of the Holy Ghost.

I have taken fourteen subscriptions for the Signs of the Times,—four for one year, and the remainder for six months,—and sold about ten dollars' worth of books and tracts. ARTHUR W. BARTLETT.