The Sure Result of Seed Sowing
Brother R. A. Underwood sends us the following encouraging incident, which should inspire every worker to renewed diligence. Bread cast upon the waters will of a surety be found after many days, perhaps in eternity, for God's word will not return unto him void:— “I have just learned of a very interesting case of a man and his wife, who accepted this message from the reading of one copy of the Signs thrown upon the street here in Erie, Pa., about sixteen or eighteen years ago. They were here visiting friends, and picked up the paper from State Street. They read it, and on returning to their home at Charlestown, W. Va., wrote back here to their friends that that one paper had changed their whole lives, and that they would devote their talents of time and means to the work of carrying this truth. They were wealthy people. Only about one month from the time they accepted the truth, they were both drowned in a terrible flood at Charlestown. Their friend, who recently told me the experience, received the news of their coming into the truth, by personal letters from them at about the same time that the sad account of their death by the flood was reported. This illustrates the importance of circulating the Signs. The lady who gave me the information is not a Sabbath-keeper. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry. So far as I know, I am the first one of our people to learn of these facts. The copy of the Signs had been sent to Mr. B. F. Henry, of Erie, Pa., by Brother Moser, the father-in-law of Dr. E. J. Waggoner, of California. He probably will never know until he meets them in the kingdom, that two dear souls accepted the truth and went to rest firm in the faith as the result of his sending that paper to Mr. Henry.”