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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 25, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 39.

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HOME MISSIONARY WORK.

By Geo. H. Smith

GEO. H. SMITH. (Lincoln, Neb.)
A LETTER received from one of our busy sisters affords a striking example of practical home missionary work. It reads as follows:—
“I have been looking for missionary work this week, and have found it. Last Wednesday I went to assist a sick woman, who has only an incompetent servant to look after everything. The latter was washing, so I made the beds, swept the floor, cleaned the lamps, and washed the dishes. Then I went to grandma’s, brought home her clothes and washed and ironed them.
“Thursday I helped a woman cut and fit a dress, and gave her some of our papers to read. I also loaned an old man, who is a great reader, a copy of ‘Thoughts on Daniel,’ and shall let him have ‘Thoughts on Revelation’ next.
“Friday I went to a home where the mother is very ill, combed her hair, made her as comfortable as possible, and then fanned her as long as I could spare time.
“It is only a little I can do, but I wish to overcome some of the public prejudice against our people in this place, so that you will have better success with your meetings when you come.”
This woman has a family to look after, yet she finds time to help others. I wish our people everywhere would do more of this work. We shall not know all the results of our labor in this world, but we may be sure of one thing,—the truth will find its way more quickly to hearts softened by these little acts of kindness, and “Thoughts on Daniel and Revelation” and our papers will be read with much more interest when we “learn to labor” than when we fill people’s heads with ideas and furnish material for argument.
God bless the home missionaries!