Result of Missionary Efforts.
By S. N. Haskell
The following extracts were taken from a letter which was placed in my hands by one of our brethren. From a periodical which he was taking, we obtained the name of a German in Wisconsin, to whom he sent a copy of the Signs of the Times, the Stimme der Wahrheit, and also some tracts. “I feel very grateful for your kindness in sending me some tracts on tobacco, tea, and coffee. I had done away with the use of the latter to some extent, but considered it a good medicine when very tired or cold. Since reading the tract, however, I have resolved never to use it again under any circumstances. I have never been much of a tobacco-user.” “I found a tract, or rather a part of a tract, on the road, which advocated the second coming of Christ and immortality only through him. The former point of doctrine I fell in love with, but the latter I was terribly provoked at, to that extent that I destroyed the tract. Afterward, in reflecting upon the matter, I many times wished that I had it again. Coming in contact with a Seventh-day Adventist lady, shortly after, she cornered me up so closely that I was obliged to admit that her people had the truth; and myself, wife, and three daughters are now keeping the Sabbath of the Lord. I should judge from the tract which you sent me, ‘Much in Little,’ and the Stimme der Wahrheit, that you are a Sabbath-keeper, if so, you are my friend and brother. I shall rent my place in the spring, and labor among my countrymen. I have for many years labored as a colporter, and for fourteen years served as a pastor for the German Baptists.”