EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE
WHEN I have occasion to go anywhere, I always carry a few papers with me, and often meet some one to whom I have given a number in that way. I have taken two orders for “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and hope to get more. The oldest member in our church has a book, and says he will canvass for it. I attend both the Quaker and Methodist meetings. I think this is a good way to get acquainted with the people, and that it will influence others to attend our meetings. Pray on! The Lord hears! In three hours after leaving your circle, I passed through one of the darkest hours of my life; but Jesus was so near to me I could feel a strengthening power that was superhuman, enabling me to say in my heart, “Thy will be done.” One quite intelligent woman here was very bitter against the truth, but help in sickness has removed her prejudice, and she now talks freely with me on Bible subjects, and is willing to read anything I offer her. She has read many tracts and several REVIEWS and Signs, and wishes to know about Sister White. She has read “Great Controversy” with much interest. As I have taken my children and gone to my neighbors with “Christ’s Object Lessons,” I have been surprised to see how ready they are to tell me of their need of God. I have met some forlorn cases, rich in this world’s goods, but barren of God’s love and truth in their lives, who really long to know God. My heart goes out to them, and I long to help them. Praise God, I can point them to Him, and He can help. I, too, receive a blessing. This work is better than medicine—it blesses those who receive and those who give; for God is between, uniting us, and His healing beams shine out on both sides. A prominent lady, hearing that I knew how to give the Sanitarium treatments, sent for me, as her physician had said that these treatments would help her. Of course I went, and the Lord has been with me in a wonderful way, for which I feel grateful. I now go every night to her room, and the treatments give her immediate relief from severe pain. She asked me to sing to her of the Lord, and as I prayed with her, she was overcome. She is sure the Lord sent me to her, and has asked me why we believe that Jesus is soon coming. I have thus had an opportunity to tell her the precious news, and my heart has been greatly rejoiced.