A. C. BOURDEAU by Abram C. Bourdeau

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 15, 1902

A. C. BOURDEAU

By Abram C. Bourdeau

From California to Mississippi

My recent stay of nearly four months in California was pleasant and satisfactory. Where I was, the climate was salubrious, and my health really seemed to improve. I made a short visit to six different places, and then returned to Fresno.

For more than forty-seven years I have been a reader of the REVIEW AND HERALD, and have noticed with deep interest the progress of the cause of present truth in different parts of the broad field. It was a third of a century ago when Elder J. N. Loughborough and my brother, D. T. Bourdeau, were sent as laborers to start the work on the Pacific Coast. Truly the Lord has given success.

In nearly every place I met with some persons whom I had known in other States or in European countries, among whom were some that I had baptized in Vermont more than forty years ago, and some whom I baptized in Rumania. While I was on the coast, four of the old pioneers there were laid away, to awake with all the sleeping saints in the resurrection morning. Blessed hope!

My heart was filled with joy as I met many believers, in large and commodious houses of worship, and saw their church schools, and as I visited the efficient college in Healdsburg, the prosperous publishing house in Oakland, the beneficial sanitarium so pleasantly located in St. Helena, and the home of Sister E. G. White and Elder W. C. White, devoted and planned to be of use in the good cause, where a successful health-food plant is located.

This is only a representation of what may be witnessed in other parts of the world. O, what is not the Lord doing for his people! and how much more would he not do for us if we were awake, and ready to co-operate with him! O let us earnestly cast off the works of darkness, put on the armor of light, and awake to righteousness!

I am now in Mississippi, associating with fellow laborers in the work here for a few weeks. The Lord has strengthened me, and has enabled me to visit, and to speak some to the people, for which I praise his name.