A Blessed Experience

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 19, 1902

A Blessed Experience

Not long ago one of our Michigan ministers and his wife rode twenty miles on their wheels to visit an isolated sister, who, with her family, had practically no opportunity for church privileges.

The minister and his wife talked to her in regard to the blessings attendant upon the work with “Christ’s Object Lessons.” She decided to go to work, and in the following letter she tells her experience:—

“DEAR BROTHER AND SISTER: You remember of going with me to take a book? Well, that lady bought one at the next prayer meeting [this sister holds prayer meetings with her neighbors, none of whom are in the truth]. She said that her husband read and re-read in it the next day, and liked it very much.

“At the next prayer meeting I sold another, and got one dollar toward it; the rest is good.

“Last week, when coming from Delton, I met a neighbor to whom I had sold a book a short time before you came. She is now living in Kalamazoo. She said it was a fine book, and she didn’t see how any one could read it without being benefited. One of her neighbors borrowed it to read to her sick mother. My friend felt sure she could sell her one. So I let her take a book, telling her she would receive a blessing in so doing. She seemed to grasp a new idea, and willingly took hold in faith. I feel sure that all the Lord requires of me is to watch for opportunities, and be willing and ready to improve them. He knows that I cannot leave my home to canvass. He knows, too, that I have not time and memory to commit a lengthy canvass to memory. I just show the book, tell them that it is a grand, good book, and the Lord does all the rest. I know that

the angels are present, as Sister White says, to give others confidence in my statements, and impress them to buy.

“I enjoy this work. Every successful effort gives me deeper, stronger faith in God; for I know I could not sell one book if he did not do the work. And what a joy it is to think that the King of heaven stoops to use so worthless an instrument as I am. Remember me in your prayers.”

This is, indeed, the recital of a “blessed experience.” This sister has sold twenty-five copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons.”