SOW BESIDE ALL WATERS by Mrs. S. N. Haskell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 21, 1901

SOW BESIDE ALL WATERS

By Mrs. S. N. Haskell

MRS. S. N. HASKELL

The following letter, which has been received from a sister, we trust will inspire many others with the same spirit breathed in it:—

Dear Sister: If you know of any sister who has not the privilege of taking the REVIEW, yet would enjoy it, I would be pleased to send her mine from week to week for the next few months, also the Life Boat. If she will send her address, she is welcome to the papers, which ought not to lie idle.

In many homes the REVIEW, Signs, Instructor, and other papers are taken, and after being read are simply thrown aside, and often become so soiled as to be unfit to give to others. This ought not to be. These papers contain precious truth, and all around us are souls hungering and thirsting for this very light which we could send to them if we would. Every paper containing precious truth should be treated as precious, not thrown around carelessly, but preserved. There is no one who cannot secure the address of those who do not know the truth; it may be the address of an entire stranger, or it may be one received from a stranger, but if we send the papers and pray earnestly, the Lord will bless them, and in the kingdom of God we shall see fruit of our effort.

No amount of wealth would I take in exchange for the joy I expect to experience in the kingdom of God in seeing fruit of this kind of missionary work,—papers that I have sent to entire strangers, to addresses taken from directories and secured in various ways. I know of only a few who have accepted the truth as a result of this work, but I know that the many papers I have sent out with prayer and faith will bear fruit in the kingdom. Let us improve this opportunity.

If from love to God and His work, the papers containing the precious truth, after having been read, are mailed to some one who knows not the way of life, God will bless the efforts put forth. If you have never done any of this work, begin at once. If you have done it in the past and have become negligent, renew your zeal. Let us go to work in earnest and sow beside all waters. The Lord has promised a blessing upon those that do this. Isa. 32 : 20.