EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE
THE Lord is answering my prayers and healing me in a most wonderful manner. I do thank and praise Him. I have experienced great blessing in really talking with the Lord. I think it is so good to take Him into all our affairs. I have tried to be a Christian ever since I was a little girl, but only within a few years have I known how to go to Christ with my trials and troubles, and get comfort. I no longer tell my troubles to my friends, only to Jesus. I get comfort, sweet comfort, from Him, and it is not a seldom thing to get direct answers to my prayers. I am thankful to say that my husband has recovered, and is now canvassing for “Great Controversy.” Through sickness and discouragements he had given up the work, but has now taken it up again, to stay in it until the Lord comes, he says. He thinks he has learned that if the Lord can care for him months at a time while he is sick and helpless, He can certainly care for him while engaged in His cause. I am glad our people are beginning to take a more active interest in the temperance work; for I believe much good can be accomplished by it. Some who were using tobacco and liquor two years ago, have given up both, and are rejoicing in present truth. First they signed the anti-liquor pledge, then the anti-tobacco, and so were led on step by step into the principles of health reform. These principles have worked wonders for the people here. The following is an extract from a letter written by an isolated Sabbath-keeper. If we remember rightly, Elder Shireman visited her once, by our request, and aside from this she has not seen a Sabbath-keeper’s face for twenty years:— I send two dollars for which I worked with my own hands, for the relief of the schools. I want to give it to the Lord, and I want to get it in before it is too late. To-day, while looking over some old REVIEWS, I opened one dated Nov. 20, 1900, and on the Woman’s page I found a letter written by a sister in a Western State who was then in almost destitute circumstances, having to provide for a baby niece, and a mother who was very ill with cancer. She herself was not strong, but walked seven miles a day to obtain work so that she might get money for their sustenance. I wish you would send me her address; for I can at least write to her. If more of such cases were published, it might take some of the selfishness out of our hearts, and set us to work. I think I am only one of many who would be glad to hear through the REVIEW how this dear sister is prospering. It has been a severely cold winter here, and my heart aches for those in destitute circumstances. I intend to send the Woman’s Gospel Work a small sum of money through our tract society next month; for I am deeply interested in this movement among our sisters. The noontide hour of prayer is sweet to me as I think of so many of our dear family upon their knees at that time. Surely, in union there is strength. Will the amount received from the sale of the book, “My Mother’s Life,” be printed in the REVIEW. The sister referred to in the preceding letter was cared for by those in her own Conference. The amount received from Mrs. Rossiter for “My Mother’s Life,” was eleven dollars. Our attention is called to a sad case—a widow whose husband has been dead two years, leaving her with a family of three children to support, and no means whatever. The oldest son, a boy of sixteen years, has obtained work in the mines at a dollar a day, but his employer says he must work on Saturday, or he can not work at all. As the support of the whole family is dependent upon him, he works on the Sabbath. The mother writes, requesting prayers that the way may be opened so that they can obtain a living and yet keep the Sabbath. I am a widow. I have a son on whom I depend for support, as I have no means. For some time he has been drinking and gambling, and some weeks has wasted all his earnings. I have talked to him about it, and he always says he knows that it is wrong, and over and over again has promised not to do so again. I think he honestly desires to quit, but Satan has him so bound that he leads him nearly all the time. I have told him that he can not overcome in his own strength, that the Lord is his only help. I have always treated him kindly, but sometimes I feel like giving up the battle; then the thought comes to me: “Be not weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” I ask prayer in my own behalf, that I may always deal with him as the Saviour would, and that my life may be such as to lead him nearer the Saviour; pray also that the Lord will help my dear boy to overcome all these evil habits. I have two other children who are unconverted; pray also for them. I have been observing the noontide hour of prayer, and feel encouraged by the blessings others have experienced in seeing dear ones brought to Christ.