p. 48 | Meeting at Sanitarium by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 21, 1902

Meeting at Sanitarium.

By Uriah Smith

IT was our privilege to attend meeting, Sabbath January 18, at the Sanitarium chapel, and listen to Brother Stucker, the revival evangelist who has been holding union services in Battle Creek for about two weeks. The chapel was soon filled, and the adjoining gymnasium provided seats for the overflow, till it constituted a large congregation, composed mostly of helpers and patients connected with the Sanitarium. The speaker dealt with his congregation apart from his usual services in town under the conviction that, judging from their situation and surroundings, many of them were laboring under bodily infirmities, and perhaps some of them under feelings of loneliness and discouragement. His desire was to speak words of good cheer and comfort to such; and to this end he could make no better selection than the twenty-third Psalm. This scripture he accordingly expounded in full, not only in its general relation to the whole book of Psalms, but sentence by sentence, to bring out the beauties couched in the language, and reveal the beauty and fragrance of its wonderful flowers. It was a feast of fat things; and we feel safe in saying, in behalf of all who listened, that not one went away without feeling refreshed and encouraged with a view of the storehouse of comfort for them found in the word of God. U. S.