Testimonies from Isolated Believers
Bro. John W. Johnston, of Shelby Co., Ind., who embraced the truth from reading, while his wife was taking treatment at the Health Institute at Lafayette last summer, writes as follows:— Since I returned home I have been taking the REVIEW, which contains much valuable truth of which I should not know how to be deprived, living, as I do, away from an organized church, where I hear no preaching, and where I am obliged to meet all the opposition of the people. I have loaned and given away several hundred pages of tracts, which have convinced some of the truth, but they have not the moral courage to obey. Bro. S. H. Lane visited me last November, and preached three times in the P. M. church. His preaching created quite an interest for the time, and many are anxious to hear a course of lectures. Persons frequently ask me when my preacher is coming back, and express a wish to hear him. I have secured a large school-house for him or any of our ministers that may come. I indorse the tithing system adopted by the church. I have faith to believe a church can be organized here by proper exertion, and I am anxious to have the truth presented by some of our preachers, and hope the ministers will remember the scattered ones. Sister Maria A. Haywood, writing from East Swansey, N. H., says:— I have not seen a Seventh-day Adventist since I came here seven years ago. The people had never heard of such a class of Christians, and laughed me to scorn when I told them that the seventh day was the only Bible Sabbath; but I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep me from falling. I hope if any brethren or sisters come this way they will call on me. I desire the prayers of the people of God, that I may be preserved blameless unto the coming and kingdom of our blessed Saviour.