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My Summer's Rest and Experience

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 30, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 5.

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My Summer's Rest and Experience

By E. W. Webster

After the death of my beloved companion last spring, I was so worn that it seemed advisable to go to the mountains awhile. I had brothers in the West, and to visit them, to secure the benefits of the climate and treatments at the Boulder Sanitarium, and especially to fulfil my wife's dying request that I visit and help certain relatives all I could, I went to Colorado the first of August, where I spent three months, stopping one month also in Kansas and Missouri. I not only got a good start on the road to health, but also had the pleasure of visiting brothers I had not seen for years, witnessed the conversion of one of them to the truth, and had the pleasure of baptizing him; and since then his son and his wife have been baptized, and all have joined one of our churches in Denver.
For over thirty years I have been in this truth alone, so far as regards my relatives; I greatly rejoice that these are now with me. Not only so, but three other brothers are studying the message, and in their letters they say, “Pray for me that I, too, may be ready to go with the Lord.” One of these I had not seen nor heard from for twenty-seven years. How good the Saviour is to give us our dear ones to be with us in the truth! What a cheer is brought into the life by the hope of having them with us in the kingdom of God! The visit with my wife's relatives was profitable also, though I feel that not all was accomplished for them that she had hoped for.
During the summer, and to the present time, though so worn to begin with, I have spoken fifty-seven times, at various places; have held several other meetings and Bible readings, and have done much personal work. Although the labor has been little, the results have led me to rejoice greatly; and after the rest, I now find my health so nearly restored that I can again take up more active work in this cause, which is dearer to me than life itself. Praise the Lord with me for all he has done.
E. W. WEBSTER.
Sanitarium, Takoma Park, D. C.