MRS. ALYCE HANSEN-WILLIAMS by Alyce Hansen-Williams

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 17, 1907

MRS. ALYCE HANSEN-WILLIAMS

By Alyce Hansen-Williams

Scotland

Edinburgh.—Our trip across the ocean was a very pleasant one. Neither my husband nor I experienced any seasickness. We are now nicely settled only a few minutes’ walk from town.

Edinburgh is a beautiful old classic town, with its fine schools, churches, and castles. The Edinburgh Castle is built way up on the rocks, and the gardens are about a mile long. On the opposite side of the street we have our finest stores (shops they are called here). We have enjoyed climbing the surrounding hills, which are as green and fresh as our American lawns are in June. They tell us the grass will remain green all winter, for we have a great deal of rain and not much cold weather.

A little Scotch girl, Miss H. Granville, and I have been telling the people about our soon-coming Saviour. We have spent some time in New Haven, a suburb of Edinburgh, among the better class of people, also the fisher folk. The people express great interest in our work. I am surprised at finding so many who are waiting for Christ’s second coming.

The houses of these fisher people are built of stone, one or two stories high, on the shore of the North Sea. The women may be seen going through the streets, wearing short striped skirts, with large double baskets of fish on their backs. Many of them are old and gray-haired. Upon entering the rooms of these fishwives one is impressed with the display of dishes hung on every square foot of the wall. Though the rooms are small and crowded, the inmates seem to have learned well the lessons of cleanliness and neatness.

I feel very grateful for the opportunity of telling others about our wonderful truth, and enjoy the experiences and lessons I learn from day to day, though I often feel a great need of a better understanding of the Scriptures, and greater ability to grasp the promise of God for an increased growth of intellect, that my faculties may unite with the divine, that every power of my being may be brought into direct contact with the Source of light. It is the simplicity and faith of a little child, ready to learn, that we must have, so that we can tell our message plainly and with force. God is indeed good to us. We see his guiding hand every day. Our one ambition is to be ever found ready to do his bidding.