OREGON by Wm. Estell

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

OREGON

By Wm. Estell

DALLAS.— The Seventh-day Adventist church of Dallas, Ore., has twenty-one members, and the Spirit of God is leading the Lord’s people here. They are preparing for the soon-coming Saviour. Two were baptized into Christ, July 6, 1901. They came into the truth through hearing Brother Squires, nearly two years ago, at Falls City, Ore. They are advancing rapidly in the truth, having accepted the tithing system and the health reform.

There was a revival in our church last winter. The Lord sent it to us through reading “Power for Witnessing.” Sins were confessed, wrongs were made right, and now in the quiet time character is being built up, and the truth of the gospel is being revealed in the lives of the Lord’s people. Oh, how we thank our dear Heavenly Father for the blessed message in that book!

The writer accepted present truth a year ago, through reading “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation.” Over two years ago I got the book out of a saloon. There was a writing desk on one end of the bar, and this book was in there. I asked the saloon-keeper if I could take it and read it. He said I could have it, as it was no good, and he did not know where it came from. I read until I came to the seventh chapter of Revelation, when I laid the book away with some unchristian remarks about it. I did not read the book again for nearly a year, but my mind was continually on the seventh chapter of Revelation; and when I took the book up again to read, I began at Revelation seven.

“Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.” “In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.”

Wm. ESTELL, Clerk.