A Visitor Embraces the Adventist Message
At the camp meeting in Leeds, England, one Sabbath a testimony meeting was held, and opportunity granted for all who wished to speak. Near the close of the meeting an elderly gentleman spoke as follows: “I have been sitting here with a fire burning in my bones, and I have risen that I may at least let you know that this fire is burning. I was here on Sunday night, came again on Monday, and have not been absent since. Although I came in feeling as a visitor not altogether in sympathy with you, I now feel that I am one of you. There has been a marvelous transformation going on in my mind during the week. I have listened and criticised, and been in a hurry to know what is the next chapter. I feel so perfectly at home with you that I do not want to go away. If this be the work of the Lord, I want to devote my energies to it; and there may be yet in my healthy bones twenty years more of hard work. To-day I can say with you, ‘This is the day which the Lord hath made,’ and I am rejoicing in it. To me ‘this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.’ It delights me to find a people who exercise common sense with regard to health and the common matters of every-day life, who look after health, education, and the cultivation of all the faculties of mind and body. But I must suppress the residue of fire that is still burning in my bones.”