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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 14, 1902

“A GLORIOUS MEETING.”—

FROM MISSION BOARD CORRESPONDENCE.

The Week of Prayer has been a time of refreshing. The brethren and sisters enter the new year with a new inspiration to consecration and service. The hope of the soon coming of Jesus has quickened many hearts, and the missionary interest increases. Earnest work on the right hand and on the left, and in the regions beyond, is the motto for the coming year.

An isolated young sister writes from Indian Territory, inclosing three dollars as an offering to missions. She says:—

“When I hear the calls for help, I feel that I would like to have the money to help. I have not; but in a few years I can give myself. I am so anxious for that time to come.”

An Illinois laborer says that in addition to the Readings, the company where he was spent profitable seasons in studying the Testimonies, Vol. VI. “In the last meeting,” he says, “the question on page 30 was especially dwelt upon, and all felt that we ought not to keep our ministers at home, but do all we can to sustain the laborers in more needy and destitute fields.”

A lone sister in Iowa writes:—

“Inclosed find six dollars, the offering of the widow and the fatherless. We felt we must send an offering for missions, in which we are deeply interested. We are the only Seventh-day Adventist family for miles around, and often long to meet a dear brother or sister of our precious faith.”

“A GLORIOUS MEETING.”—

The elder of the Shelby (Mich.) church writes:—

“We had a glorious meeting in our church during the Week of Prayer. I had no copy of the Readings; but when I left home for the first meeting, I thought that some of the other brethren would surely have one. But in this I was disappointed. I trembled as I thought of the situation, for I was afraid we could not hold profitable daily meetings without the Readings. But when we brought up the matter, a man, not a member of the church either, said we had the word of God, and proposed that we come together to seek God just the same as if we had the Readings. So, trusting in the promises that God would be with us, we started the meetings. In our first meeting on Sunday we found the promise verified. Hearts were touched, and sins were confessed and put away, thus opening the way for the Holy Spirit to come into our midst. Monday we came together, and found that the Lord had remembered us again. One brother, calling at the post-office, had received a copy of the Readings. After a season of prayer two members gave a study from the Scriptures each day, and then we had the reading and a social meeting. These were the best meetings we have ever had in our church. On Sabbath two dear souls came forward and gave themselves to the Lord, and two others on the background reconsecrated themselves.”

One isolated Michigan sister sends twenty dollars to help “hasten the Lord’s coming,” and a brother in Greenville sends four hundred dollars for the annual offering.

An Illinois sister writes in behalf of a church which numbers only about a dozen or so:—

“We have been much impressed concerning the needs in countries outside of the United States, and with the thought that some of the smaller churches, by uniting, could sustain a missionary in some other land. How much will it cost to support a missionary in India for a year? The children are most interested in that field, and especially in the zenana work, but any other field would be the same to us, providing there is some one ready to go. Of course we cannot make promises, as members here are mostly poor; and we would need to present the matter to the nearest church.”