A LETTER FROM ELDER A. F. BALLENGER
By A. F. Ballenger
ANNAPOLIS, MD., Nov. 25, 1900. Dear Brother Magan: Judging from the REVIEW, you have been moving all the while. May the Lord continue to bless you mightily in the great work to which you have been called. I see in it the hand of Providence, and will co-operate with the movement to roll away the devil-devised, death-dealing debts of the denomination. As a church we can never receive the latter rain in its fullness until we clear the King’s highway by rolling away the débris of debt, which, in our unbelief, we have heaped on the royal road. Just as the Lord pictured the promised land to His people in Egypt, and thereby persuaded them to start for the land, and then pointed out the things that must be put away before they could possess the promised blessing, so He has now headed us toward the reception of the Holy Ghost, and is testing our earnestness in seeking the promised blessing, by pointing out the things that must be put away before we can realize the fullness of the blessing. My wife and I expect to canvass this city for “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and expect the blessing of the Lord in so doing. I believe that a universal effort will save us from the reproach now resting upon us, and that NOW is the time to make the effort. My work in the tent last summer was very enjoyable, and the results were most encouraging. There are twenty persons keeping the Sabbath, all but two of them adults, and some of them are able to help the cause financially, not so much by the property they have accumulated as through the positions they hold. The brethren have sent my wife and me to this place, which, before our coming, contained no Sabbath-keepers, with the hope that some might be led to accept the message. May the blessing of the Lord be yours in the important work of rescuing our institutions from threatened bankruptcy. Your appeals through the REVIEW are blessed of God. Continue to consecrate your life, and to cry aloud for co-operation. It will come. It takes a long time to get all our people headed in one direction, but when once on the march with God, they are invincible. Your brother in Christ,
[Signed] A. F. Ballenger.