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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Sep 11, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 37.

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EXPERIENCE

By W. T. White

A FEW days ago it occurred to me to put up a reading-rack by the roadside. I tore up a dry-goods box and made a reading-rack, which I nailed to a tree by the roadside, and filled with papers and tracts. In less than two days they were all taken out. I have used all my papers and tracts, but will order a new supply to-morrow. Some of the brethren here have promised me all their papers after they have read them, and I am taking five copies of the Signs of the Times to use for this purpose. I will gladly accept clean copies of the REVIEW, Signs, and other periodicals and tracts.
No one can tell what good may result from this work. We are commanded to sow by all waters. “In the morning sow thy seed, in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that.” It is better to use our papers in this way than to paste them on a wall, or to let the children destroy them, while souls all around us are perishing for the word of life, which it is our privilege to give them.
Brethren, if we appreciated the word of God as we should, and had the love for perishing souls and the missionary spirit that characterized the apostles and prophets, we should not waste so much precious time indulging self and seeking our own ease. We should take the books and papers that we have read till they seem dry and uninteresting, and lend them to our neighbors, and read to them, and talk to them about the love of Jesus and about his soon coming. By laboring for others we kindle, and fan into a flame, the little spark of love in our own souls.
W. T. WHITE.