Why I Am at Home by D. T. Bourdeaux

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 30, 1902

Why I Am at Home

By D. T. Bourdeaux

IT is due me to say to my numerous friends who wonder why no reports of labor appear from my pen in the REVIEW, that one reason for my silence in this respect is that in April last I met with an accident whereby my head was bruised and my right arm disabled. But from this, thanks to a good constitution and to the exhaustless fountain of life in a merciful God, to which I have access, I am fast recovering; and I hope that by grace divine I shall yet, through humble endeavors, contribute to the furtherance of the cause of present truth, which is dearer to me than my own life.

I have not been idle for the past four months, but have taken great delight in doing errands for the Lord, and in feeling after the pillars of our faith, which to me seem as firm as the character and throne of the Eternal. I have had the privilege of indulging in physical exercise, first with one hand, then with both hands, as my injured arm was recovering. Notwithstanding the effects of my accident, I have been able to do necessary writing, and to keep up quite a heavy epistolary correspondence, instructing and encouraging French brethren and sisters with whom I could not meet.

At the place in the West where French ministerial effort was most

needed, the smallpox was raging, which, of course, would be an obstacle to my holding meetings, and this was one reason why I have not made a trip among our French churches in that section of the country. With the sanction of leading brethren, I still contemplate visiting these churches. My courage is good. I follow with deep interest the progress of the cause in different fields, and my greatest ambition is to aid in its advancement, and to triumph at last with those who endure unto the end.

D. T. BOURDEAUX.