AFTER MANY DAYS by L. Flora Plummer

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 2, 1900

“AFTER MANY DAYS.”

By L. Flora Plummer

MRS. L. FLORA PLUMMER.

We often think that if we could see immediate results of the missionary work we do, we would be more zealous in our efforts for others. We must work by faith as well as walk by faith. To those who cast their bread upon the waters, the promise is that they shall find it “after many days.” The harvest comes after the sowing, and not immediately in connection with it. The promise to the one who sows is that in the harvest time he shall “come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.”

The drawing, compelling, overwhelming power there is in the truth of God is forcibly illustrated by the following incident: Some one sent several copies of the REVIEW AND HERALD to a woman, who became interested in the paper, but the husband was so prejudiced that he burned every one of the papers that he could find. His wife pasted one of them up over the wood-box. One cold day he came in from his work, and sitting down near the box to warm by the stove, his eye caught a headline on the paper, and he read a portion of the article. Then saying, “That’s not true,” he tore the article out, and threw it into the box. He went out to work again, but could not forget what he had read. In a short time he returned to the house, and when his wife was out of the room, he hunted out the torn pieces, and holding them in place on the wall, read the entire article. From that time on, he read every number of the paper that came, and finally surrendered to the Lord most fully. He and his wife began to observe the Sabbath, and now two of his brothers and their families are also members of the church. They do not know who sent the papers; but in the gathering day, some one will be surprised to see those in the kingdom whom he never knew, but for whom he labored in sending that paper. These will be stars in some one’s crown.