Missionary Work at Battle Creek.
By S. N. Haskell
Could the friends at the Signs Office see the eagerness manifested each week to obtain a copy of the Signs to use in missionary work, they would conclude that their labor was not unappreciated by the friends of the cause at Battle Creek. Last Wednesday there were not nearly enough copies of the Signs to supply the missionary workers. Considerable feeling was manifested on the part of those who had found interested readers, and could not procure enough copies to supply them. This church takes a club of 503 copies, including 350 copies ordered for three months, besides a number of individual clubs of from six to twelve, amounting in all to about 700 copies. This added to the number of copies of the Reformer, Tidende, and Herald taken in clubs, which is about 350, makes an aggregate of over 1,000 copies of periodicals, besides tracts used by this church in the missionary work. These Signs carry the rays of light, not only to every State in the Union, but to every nation where the English language is spoken. About fifty members of this church have become members of the Tract Society by the payment of one dollar, since they commenced this systematic effort, and have united with the Vigilant Committee to do missionary work. Over forty letters have already been received from various parts of the world. These letters give new evidences of the fact that many are becoming interested by reading the Signs; also they show that over a score of individuals residing alone and in small companies have embraced the Sabbath, who have never seen others of like faith. Those who have taken no interest in clubbing the Signs and doing missionary work know nothing of the joy it brings to be the instrument in the hands of God in interesting souls in the work of Christ. We confidently look forward to the time when every company of Seventh-day Adventists will be alive in communicating to others the truths which have given them so much joy, by placing before them the publications upon the same. May the Lord speed the time.—S. N. HASKELL, in Review.