A Mistake by Daniel T. Bourdeau

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 8, 1872

A Mistake.

By Daniel T. Bourdeau

WHILE brethren and sisters can and should greatly help the preacher in new fields by their testimonies and consistent lives, some commit a great error in confessing their backslidings in new fields where they are not known. The tendency of this course is to discourage young converts, and thus hinder the work. If we have any confessions to make, let us make them in our families, in our neighborhoods, or in our churches, and then go into new fields with hearts full of the love of God and yearning after souls for whom Christ died. Then will our testimonies be encouraging, and have a gathering influence.

D. T. BOURDEAU.