p. 16 | T. H. PAINTER by T. H. Painter

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 14, 1903

T. H. PAINTER

By T. H. Painter

Virginia

BEDFORD CITY.—I came to this place March 8, and immediately began to place some of our good books in the homes of the people, such as “Bible Readings” and “Coming King,” also “Gospel Primer,” and have sold thousands of pages of tracts, and distributed many of our papers. The people are glad to get this literature, and I am making many friends among those of influence. God is blessing me and my work. I am holding meetings in a large school building in a thickly settled country district. The house is filled to overflowing at each service. I speak on Friday evening and the evening after the Sabbath, also on Sunday and Sunday evening. Many are deeply stirred, and some have accepted the truth as far as it has been presented, and seem much in earnest. They have come through mud and rain, some of them a distance of three or four miles, to attend the meetings. Some who seldom go to church are regular attendants at these services.

I believe the Lord directed me to this part of the State, and to this town, and that if more work was done in the country places in Virginia, the message would advance more rapidly, and the results would be greater numerically as well as financially. May God raise up more laborers whose hearts are filled with his Holy Spirit, that the last message may be carried to the thousands in darkness. If all our churches in Virginia would do their duty, God would bless them, and they would be a blessing to others. Truly the Lord is good.