IT IS THE LORD'S DOING.
By R. F. Cottrell.
The cause of truth has many obstacles in its way. The larger class would crush it at once. They are ready to condemn it without hearing. They treat it with scorn, and would gladly drive it out of the world. But God is with his truth. There are also souls that want it; and, thank God, it is reaching them in spite of all opposition. Our publications are doing a good work. Many are getting the truth through them. And they will do much more than they are yet doing, when all believers take hold of the work together and labor in earnest in the tract and missionary work. And I am satisfied, by experience and observation, that the papers—the SIGNS OF THE TIMES and other periodicals—are the best calculated for pioneer work, to introduce other publications and the living preacher. For the encouragement of workers in the cause, I make the following statement. I am now in Tompkins Co., N. Y., to which place I was invited by one who had embraced the truth from reading. Am holding meetings in the school house of a joint district in Newfield and Danby, on a hill familiarly known as Jersey Hill. When THE VOICE OF TRUTH was started, a sister in Potter Co., Pa., had it sent to her sister here. This lady's husband handed some of the papers to his neighbors for them to see what they thought of them. The result was that one of his neighbors got interested, procured tracts from the Office, investigated, embraced the truth, and went to work to scatter the tracts among his neighbors. And he sent the request to me. I have been here but a short time. Have held five meetings. Have not touched the Sabbath question. But one has decided, since my coming, to keep the next Sabbath, and no longer labor on the Lord's sacred day. And may the work go on, in this and other places. This is the Lord's work. The way it is spreading over the earth, notwithstanding the opposition it meets everywhere, makes it marvelous in our eyes. Let workers be encouraged and work more abundantly.