Porto Rico by Mrs. B. E. Connerly

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1903

Porto Rico

By Mrs. B. E. Connerly

WHEN we went to hold a Bible reading with a family last week, we were forcibly impressed with the truth that the Lord hath not left himself without witness here. The family were not a little interested in the subject of the soon coming of Christ, and had asked us to come and study the subject with them. Before the lesson, however, they were telling us of a very interesting caller they had had the day before,—an old man one hundred and two years of age.

He was born and brought up in Porto Rico, and has never been off the island. He is hale and hearty, and had walked from Ponce, a distance of fifty miles, to make this visit. He possesses a remarkable memory, and among other events which he remembered he told them of the famous meteoric shower. He said, 'The stars fell everywhere, and the people all thought that the world was coming to an end.'

When, a few moments later, we told the family that the shower of which the old man had been telling them, was in truth a sign that the end of the world was near, their interest was intense, and they wanted to send word to the old man at once.

Indeed the isles are waiting for his law, they are ready for the truth of God. The time has fully come for God's people to arise and give them the message. The people are waiting to be told what these things mean, that they may obey the truth. God has done his part, the people have heard his voice, and are waiting for his law.

MRS. B. E. CONNERLY.

Porto Rico.