EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE.
I have been keeping the Sabbath for thirteen years; have had Bible readings, sent out publications, and for a while I had a Sunday-school for the children who did not attend any. It was an interesting school of fifteen pupils. Since signing Sister Henry’s cards, I began working with one of the most hopeless families in the neighborhood. They were careless and dirty, and my friends objected to my going near them. But they were eager for help, and a transformation was soon wrought in their lives. They do not quarrel with their neighbors, nor seem like the same family. The man acknowledges that he is not as he was before he heard the Bible. I am almost an invalid, and can not do all the work around me. Oh, the blessing of work! The more I work for the Lord, the more I love him, and the greater blessing I receive. Those who do not work for the Lord do not know his rich blessing. I shall continue to scatter our publications, and hold Bible readings. Last week an aged man told me that he never had any faith in Seventh-day Adventists, but he now sees that things are coming to pass just as they have taught, and believes there is truth in their teachings. Sister White says that our publications will be hunted up and studied by those who have not cared for them, when they see what is coming to pass. I believe that time is near. An isolated sister sends in the following list as a sample of the way she intends to keep track of her work, for her own encouragement as well as that of others. She says the people in her vicinity are much prejudiced against the truth, and with but few exceptions the only way to get our publications into their homes is through the mail. April 26, loaned a year’s volume of Good Health.
“ 30, fed one of God’s unfortunates.
May 3, sent away two REVIEWS.
“ 5, gave away Life Boat.
“ 10, visited a sick family.
“ 14, sent away papers.
“ 17, visited sick woman, and loaned her two books.
“ 24, loaned tract.
“ 31, gave one day’s time to sew for a sick family.
June 7, fed two unfortunates, and visited sick woman.
“ 11, sent away tracts.
“ 16, took care of a sick woman half a day.
“ 18, sent away papers.
“ 22, visited a sick family.
“ 30, visited a sick family.
July 1, visited a sick woman.
“ 6, fed two unfortunates.
“ 10, did baking for sick family.
“ 13, sent away papers.
“ 23, sent away papers, and visited sick woman.
“ 31, sent away papers.
Aug. 3, sent away paper.
“ 9, sent away tract.
To-day, August 12, I have called on a neighbor whose son died last night in a soldiers’ hospital in San Francisco. The family are nearly wild with grief, and it is hard to make them believe that God will comfort them in this hour of affliction. This is an encouraging record of work. It is just such little things as these that we are anxious to have every woman engage in. Sister White has written: “The most successful toilers are those who will cheerfully work to serve God in small things. Every human being is to work with his own individual thread,—weave it into the fabric that composes the web, and complete the pattern. Teach our sisters that every day the question is to be, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do this day? Every day we may be advancing in the Christian character, waiting and watching for opportunities to do the will and work of God.”