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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 13, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 2.

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Maryland

By Harry S. Weaver

Baltimore.—Reading about the great refreshing which was experienced in Battle Creek during the week of prayer, made me want to tell something about our dear little church in Baltimore during the same period.
Church Number 2, of Baltimore, had a most helpful experience with the week-of-prayer readings. Souls that doubt and fear had long kept from engaging in the work of God were liberated, set free in Christ, and these rejoiced in expressing themselves as being willing to go where the Lord should indicate that he would have them go. Praise God for his power that can move souls out of their lethargy into the glorious work of spreading the last warning message to this benighted and dying world.
We have quite a goodly number among our little band who stand as minutemen for the army of God. They are ready to leave home, mother, father, brothers, sisters, and all else for the kingdom of God's sake. These are not old and decrepit men and women who cannot do anything else, either; but they are those who have left positions, and who have stood many reproaches, for our Lord's sake, and now are willing to throw their young lives, with all their manhood, womanhood, and vigor into the work of saving souls, wherever God the Father and Christ their captain commands them to go. These are some of the fruits of the readings.
A word in reference to what made our church a lively missionary band would perhaps be helpful to others. We cultivate a missionary spirit among us, by all, as far as possible, taking some part in missionary work each week.
Quite a few of us sell The Signs, distribute tracts, and do similar work, which brings us in contact with those of the outside world, and gives us a chance to give them some phase of the truth we all love so dearly. In short, we work on the principle of doing the first thing that comes to us to do. We believe that we shall never be fitted for greater work until we do that which is at our doors. May we and all other Adventists always work on this blessed principle until the work is completed, and the Lord comes and finds us all at our post of duty, with many sheaves for his garner.
Harry S. Weaver.