p. 86 | T. M. STEWARD by T. M. Steward

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 27, 1872

T. M. STEWARD

By T. M. Steward

Illinois.

AFTER closing our tent labor, Sept. 17th, I returned home, and remained one week, after an absence of four months. I then returned to Farm Ridge to follow up the interest, as the way might open. I found a house some five miles from Farm Ridge, where I could hold meetings. I continued to hold meetings, and visit from house to house, until those who had embraced the truth were established, and others had also taken hold, and started a Sabbath School. I then visited the neighbourhood where we held our first tent-meeting, and visited some who were interested in the tent-meeting, and held a series of meetings in their neighbourhood until some six, or more, had taken a stand on the Sabbath.

In Dec. I returned home, and have held meetings at different points since. Had some excellent meetings at Rockton, Avon, Albany, and Monroe, Wis. I came here Jan. 22, to assist Bro. Andrews in the debate with Eld. Vogle, a Christian preacher. There seems to be but little interest to hear in this place.

I want to say, in my own experience the past season I see new beauties in the truth that makes me love it more than ever. It looks to me, as it looms up before my mind, like a mighty Gibraltar of truth. The more the enemy assails it, the grander and sublimer it looks. As God waited in the days of Noah, until that generation was living on the earth that should witness the flood, and then sent the warning to them, so it is now. He has waited until that generation is living on the earth that shall witness the coming of Christ, and to them he sends the warning. And as certainly as the generation that heard the warning in reference to the flood were the very ones that witnessed it; so that people, that hear the warning in reference to the second advent of Christ, will live to see the event take place. Matt. 24:34; Mark 13:30; Luke 21:32. “Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning, and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord, when he shall return from the wedding.” See Luke 12:31–38.

As the calls for help are coming from all parts, I can but pray, Lord send forth more laborers into the vineyard, and quicken those already in the field to new life and zeal in the cause. I do desire that my life may be a blessing to God's cause and the world. I will try to be more faithful in the future.

T. M. STEWARD

Erie, Ill.