OUR VISITOR by Evelyn M. Riley

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1900

OUR VISITOR.

By Evelyn M. Riley

Evelyn M. Riley, in California Missionary.

He came on a recent Sunday to the California Tract Society's office, and introduced himself as a porter on a through Pullman running between San Francisco and Washington, D. C. Why had he come? He told us that by taking papers out of the reading-racks at the stations where his train stopped, he had become wonderfully interested in the truths we hold dear. He said that he had become entirely convinced on the Sabbath question; that he often talked these things to his passengers; and that on his last trip to the Coast, one man became so interested that he asked for literature on the subject: that was the reason he called on us. When he started on his trip back, he was supplied with reading-matter for his friend, and also for passengers whom he might find to be interested.

Just before leaving the office he said, “If I ever join any church, it will be the one standing on Twelfth and Brush in Oakland, known as the Seventh-day Adventist church.”

Take courage, brethren and sisters, and keep the reading-racks well filled. Many in this gathering time will be plucked as “brands from the burning,” by this very means. We have nice, new metal reading-racks that sell for $1.50. If you haven't any in your station, be sure to send to the State office for one.