p. 17 | Report of Bible Reading Committee of Young People's Association, Takoma Park, D. C

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 8, 1904

Report of Bible Reading Committee of Young People's Association, Takoma Park, D. C.

By Frank Artress; Chapman McCoy; Harry Phillips

As there are other Societies besides ours of the same nature among our people, we have felt that it would be an encouragement to them to know how the Lord is blessing us in this important work of teaching the people the truth for these last days.

The primary object of the Society is to disseminate the truths of the third angel's message among the people around us. This, of course, might be done in various ways. We have used The Family Bible Teacher, in connection with Bible readings, as a good way of teaching the people. It was suggested that each member secure as many sets of The Teacher as he thought he could dispose of. Supplied with these, he would go out to make the acquaintance of the people, leaving, at the close of each visit, a set of these silent messengers of truth.

We have seen great manifestations of God's Spirit working upon the hearts of the people. In almost every case where we have called on families and left The Teacher, they have, sooner or later, invited us to their homes to study the Bible with them. We began with just one family, but at present readings are held each week with six families, and we have not at any time asked to hold readings with any one of them.

While the Lord has blessed our friends as we have met them in their homes, he has not forgotten us. He has caused us to taste the joys which an individual feels, and always will feel, when he sacrifices a little of his own pleasures for the more lasting and eternal joys which one experiences when engaged in the service of Christ.

The Lord has certainly blessed the work of our hands. As a result of our efforts, one family has begun the observance of the Sabbath. They are evidently in earnest, and rejoicing in the Lord. They attend Sabbath services at our Takoma Park hall.

This, certainly, causes our hearts to rejoice. We are glad to have a part in this great work of winning souls. The Lord is coming; but he will not come until “this gospel of the kingdom

shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations.”

May the Spirit of the Lord Jesus put it into the hearts of our young men and women throughout the land who have received the light of God, to throw themselves unreservedly into the hands of the Master, saying, “Lord, I am thine; make me an instrument in thy hands to hasten the coming of the great King, and the establishment of the everlasting kingdom of God.”

FRANK ARTRESS, CHAPMAN McCOY, HARRY PHILLIPS, Committee.