Scotland by Jay Nethery; Ella Nethery

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Sep 15, 1904

Scotland

By Jay Nethery; Ella Nethery

PERTH.— We left our home State, Nebraska, Sept. 27, 1902, for Scotland. After spending the fall and winter in London, where we received some excellent instruction in preparation for our work, we went to Edinburgh, Scotland. At that place we spent several months, which were filled with good experiences in the canvassing work. In March we, in company with our co-workers, Brother and Sister D. P. Miller, came to Perth to prepare the way for a tent effort; and right here we wish to express our sincere thanks to the brethren and sisters who at the Central Union Conference so kindly donated the tent for Scotland. The tent came just a few days before the time to pitch it, and we could not help thanking the Lord for his leading, and for so graciously answering our prayers. We are all doing what we can to hold up the light of truth in this place, although we have some hard battles to fight with the enemy. At first the children in the community were a great annoyance, as they tried to destroy the tent. We had to put up a barb-wire fence around it in order to keep them out until time for children's meetings each day. This so disturbed some of the parents who would not come out to the meetings that they tried to advertise our work in the paper, calling it “barb-wire Christianity.” Nevertheless we are of good courage, and have only praise to offer; for, “If the Lord be for us, who can be against us?” There are a few earnest souls here who we feel sure will walk in the light of the truth when it is fully presented. The tent is always well filled Sunday evenings, and although the attendance is not large through the week, yet we believe those who do come are seeking for truth.

After the tent effort is over in the fall, we expect, if the Lord is willing, to return to America to spend the winter in helping our brother dispose of his and our property, so that he with us may enter the work in the spring, to be self-supporting a few more years, as we have been since coming to Great Britain. We shall either return to Scotland or go to some other needy field, just as the Lord leads. Our hearts are in this message, and we do want to do all in our power to proclaim it.

Since coming to Scotland our paper and book sales have amounted to over eleven hundred dollars, but that is small in comparison with what some of the workers who have devoted most of their time to canvassing have done.

Brethren and sisters, pray for the work here. We thank the Lord that he sent us to Scotland.

JAY NETHERY, ELLA NETHERY.