"PRESENT circumstances cause me to make an appeal to our American brethren and sister to favor our little Swedish Mission with the lending of a charitable hand, to send the Svensk Advent Harold to some honest-hearted Swede, in the neighborhood where you live.
At the present, for the first time, I have an opportunity to find a welcome stopping place, where I need not pay for my board, while I present our faith in the soon coming of our Lord Jesus. This is owing to the fact that a considerate and truth-loving man in Illinois sent the Review to this family. I stopped with them over half a year ago. This powerful, but silent missionary has not only converted the man who received its visits, who is deacon of a Baptist church, but even the minister of the same church and both their families.
Further, the deacon, after he had learned the value of the message and his heart became attached to the blessed truth, sent some tracts to his friends in Kansas, and those tracts have lead their families to the holy Sabbath of their God. Those families are now eagerly working to spread light about them with feelings of joy and gratitude for the favor. They feel indebted to the God of Heaven, as well as to him whom God used as an instrument to enlighten them.
If you, dear reader, had only an opportunity to listen to the fervent prayers and heartfelt wishes that go up to God in behalf of those who have been the means of bringing the knowledge of present truth to those souls, you would not hesitate a moment to do all in your power to become an object of such a true and tender feeling.
Let us look at the nature of the work. We believe that this message is preparing souls for eternal glory. Every soul who is truly converted to God's truth and presses forward, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, in an active life of purity, will ere long gain an eternal crown of rejoicing. Oh, my soul! how couldst thou cease from laboring in the Lord's vineyard if thy labor will bring such a great price!
Reader, I hear you say, "If I could only be a missionary, oh, how I would delight in that great and glorious work!" This is the right kind of feeling that ought to fill your heart, brother or sister! and, now is the time to act out your principles. You can be a missionary. You can be to-day; Follow the example set by our dear brother of Illinois, who, by a small effort to draw the attention of his fellow-beings to God's eternal truth, can look upon a little mission of his own to-day which has already reached two States including fourteen or fifteen members. He can stay at home and feel that, by the blessing of God, he has been the founder of a mission that may continue to grow and bring forth an abundant harvest at the coming of the Reaper. "Go and do thou likewise."