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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 13, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 33.

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KENTUCKY

By B. Hagle

BENDER.—May 27 I came to Bender; and from the first, the attendance at our services has been good. After considering the prophecies, we took up the Sabbath question, and one by one our hearers accepted the truth. The ministers have preached against us from time to time, then sent off for some of their great men to come and tear down our work. When they failed to give any divine authority, they ridiculed us and our work; but it has only strengthened the ones who have taken hold in earnest. Truly, they can do nothing against the truth. Some of the people have threatened to drive us out of the place, but we have had no fears; for we are protected by the power of God. He is our shield and buckler. We have gone straight forward in the work of preaching the plain truth, laying the sins of formal professors open, and calling the people to take their stand with the true people of God, and the Lord has brought out a company to keep all the commandments of God. We expect soon to organize a church with a membership of twenty or twenty-five. Nearly all have taken part in the work of circulating the Signs of the Times, as we have taken two hundred copies.
It would do some of our old Sabbath-keepers good to meet with this company in our Sabbath and prayer meetings, and hear their earnest petitions for the Lord to send the truth to others. The people here are all poor, as this is a mining town, and work is scarce in the summer. Many have no Bible in their house. I wish some one would send us half a dozen Bibles to give to those who are not able to buy for themselves.
I praise God that it has been my privilege to labor for this people. I have received urgent calls to go to other places, and when I told the company here that I must leave them soon, they said, “We don’t like to give you up; but when we think how glad we are that you came and brought us the truth, we are willing to do what we can here, and let you go and give the truth to those who have not heard it yet, as we desire to hasten the coming of our blessed Master.” “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few,” pray the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into His harvest. B. HAGLE.