EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE.
THE following extracts taken from a few of the many letters received by our workers, reveal a growing desire on the part of many to both read and distribute our publications. A teacher of a colored school in Georgia, says: “I was very glad to receive the papers. I have a large school, and all such articles can be utilized. Education and moral training are what the colored people need. We need all the help we can get. Hope to hear from you soon.” A writer from North Carolina says: “I received your card and the Signs of the Times you sent me. I have read the paper, and am much interested in it. I will loan it to my friends. I am making a circulating library out of the literature sent me. I shall be glad to have your aid in the work of the Lord. My work is chiefly among a class of people who never read a religious paper. I give Bibles to those who have none, and temperance papers to those who drink. I have a class of six little girls in Sunday-school. I give them a paper once a month as a reward. Anything by which you may help in the winning of souls will be acceptable.” A gentleman in Virginia writes: “Your card is before me. I don’t know to whom I am indebted for the introduction, but as I am hungering in the wilderness for spiritual food, you are doubtless one of the means employed to send me meat in due season. The bulk of the reading you send I am interested in, and after perusal I scatter the seed among neighbors, requesting them to read and pass on. Had I the means, I would gladly subscribe.” A lady from a western State writes: “My sister and family who live in —, were here when I received your letter. She says there is a good little number of Seventh-day Adventists in —, and many people there are looking for the truth. Three years ago mother sent this sister’s husband ‘The Coming Conflict.’ A lady physician called at her house, and happened to see the book, and wanted to read it. She read the book, and many others of the same kind, and is now a Seventh-day Adventist.” The following is from a colored man in Liberia, Africa. He says: “The Lord must have put it into your heart to write to me. The papers and tracts came safe to hand. The papers are as bread cast upon the water, which will be gathered after many days. When I have read the Signs of the Times, I send or give them to others. You can’t imagine the joy it gives these people. The tracts throw a flood of light on subjects which are of vital importance. Those that treat on the Sabbath, I read with the utmost care. One man who read the papers asked me if I believed in the seventh-day Sabbath. I told him I did. So you will oblige me if you will send all the papers you can. Tell your friends not to let any papers and tracts go to waste as long as Africa stands benighted. Remember that one paper sent in the name of Christ may be the means of saving a soul. The seed sown may be small, but the harvest will be great.” Let us never be indifferent to the fact that there are hundreds and thousands throughout this wide earth who would appreciate every spare paper or tract. So let us heed the admonition, and not waste one of the precious pages of truth while souls remain unwarned.