TEXAS by Chas. N. Eastman

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 5, 1900

TEXAS

By Chas. N. Eastman

New Hope Church, Marietta.

Sister Mary Brown came here Jan. 1, 1900, and opened a church school, which closed April 20. The school was a success, praise the Lord. I have been in the cause of present truth for over twenty years, but I never saw a more determined opposition on the part of Satan. He seemed determined from the first that we should not have the school, and he fought every inch of the ground. But, in answer to the united prayers of God’s people, the cause triumphed. To the Lord be the praise. The opposition was not only from the outside, but the evil one influenced some within to embarrass the school.

Having failed to break up this term, he began early to defeat the next, and for a while it seemed as if he would succeed; but again right and truth prevailed, so that plans have been arranged for a five-months’ school next fall and winter, the funds being all pledged to meet the expenses. For this we again say, Praise the Lord.

The conflict has been long and fierce, and the language of our hearts is best told in Psalm 124.

The church here has experienced some of the shaking time. Some have been shaken out, and some others seem almost certain of falling; but we are praying for them, that their faith fail not. We have seen demonstrated here, that it will not do to reject the Testimonies of the Spirit of God, even on the matter of schools. One Testimony rejected lets in Satan, with his many hellish suggestions.

To-day the people of God as well as the world are being tested upon the question of loyalty to God. May God help us to be loyal to him.

CHAS. N. EASTMAN.