EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE
I HAVE had two reading racks in two depots. I took ten copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons” to sell, and have sold nine of them, and I shall sell more if God wills. Was pleased to receive your letter of December 30. Have not had a letter from my son since, but have learned from others that there has been a forward move on his part. Let us pray that the work may still go on. I have thought of writing to you for some time to ask prayers for two wayward boys, that they may be converted. I read the Woman’s page with interest as soon as received, and pray for all who have asked for prayers. I will remail my REVIEW to any address you may send. For some time I have been wishing for an opportunity to do good with my REVIEWS. It seems a pity to have them lying around, doing no good after we have read them. I am a poor woman, but believe the Lord will provide if I have a willing spirit to do my part. We never want to do without the REVIEW, and expect always to take it. An invalid sister lives about eight miles from our church, with an opposing family. Although she can get around only in a wheel-chair, she has many callers. This affords her an opportunity to do a great deal of missionary work, which is well improved. One Sunday, about six years ago, I went into a neighbor’s house, and asked if she had any good reading for Sunday. She loaned me a book called “Bible Readings,” saying she did not know what was in it herself. I brought it home, and my husband and I began studying the Sabbath question; and in due course of time, we became convinced that Saturday is the Sabbath. I kept the book about six or seven months, and then had to part with it. It seemed as if some dear one was torn from me when it went. I could not find out where the book was published, and did not know how to get another. Soon after this, we moved to another place, and I searched diligently for the followers of the doctrine taught in the book, but failed to find them. One year ago last summer, while taking a walk with my little boy, I saw a gospel tent being put up, and that evening I told my husband that I was going to the meetings to see if these were not the people who taught the truths set forth in the book. Every night we became more convinced that they were, and the fourth night my husband asked the ministers, and we greatly rejoiced to know that this was true, and that we could get the book from them. At the time the truth found me, I was in the world, driven into Spiritualism. I was seeking for light, but I could not find what I wished in the churches; and I am indeed thankful that the Lord sent the truth to me in this way. The preceding is only one of many instances which show what our publications do. Let us be diligent in scattering them, and we may be sure that God will care for every seed of truth sown, and that it will not be without result.