p. 5 | A Manifest Providence by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Oct 25, 1906

A Manifest Providence

By W. A. S.

Perhaps others are passing on an incident which Elder C. H. Edwards, of New York City, related at the recent publishers’ convention in Washington. At any rate, it ought to be set down for all, as it is a manifest providence, with a special lesson for us just now.

An Italian brother, working in New York, has been doing what he could with our Italian literature among the many thousands of that tongue in the great city. Somehow the literature came to the attention of a great evangelical distributing agency, whose board has put our Italian “Glorious Appearing,” “Steps to Christ,” and one or two other works, upon their regular list of publications, for all their agents to handle. This means that a hundred or more agents, working constantly among foreign-speaking peoples over the United States, will be put in the way of selling our Italian literature.

It shows that Providence has ways we little think of, by which to circulate our literature among foreign-speaking peoples. It must surely stir our hearts with a desire to take up the work more earnestly for these large populations. Just before us is the Sabbath collection of November 3, for the International Publishing Association, of College View, which stands for this very work. Let us help it in a determined way, for it must be a beacon light to people of other tongues. W. A. S.