A MISSIONARY INCIDENT

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1901

A MISSIONARY INCIDENT

A WORKER in a sailors’ mission relates the following experience:—

A few days ago, after attending the meeting at the mission, on my way home I passed the home of a man who receives good wages, but wastes his money, instead of supporting his family. As I passed the house, I heard this man abusing his wife, but instead of going in to interfere, I hurried home, and spread the man’s case before the Lord, praying to Him for deliverance for the one so bound by sin. Before night came, that same day, the man came to my house and begged me to go home with him. I did so, and he asked me, as well as his wife and daughter, to go down town to witness his signing the pledge. The poor wife had been so often and so bitterly disappointed, that she had lost faith in him, and declined to go. But the daughter and I went, and the man signed the pledge as strongly as he could make any contract, and had it legally recorded. It seemed as if he wished to burn the bridges behind him by making the matter public. There are earnest hearts burdened over this case, praying that he may be led to the Saviour, who can set him free indeed from the strong fetters that have heretofore bound him.

The worker also says that this experience has cheered him greatly, and that he would rather have such an experience than to be pastor in the finest and richest church of the land.