p. 63 | A Tract by Albert Weeks

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 4, 1873

A Tract.

By Albert Weeks

About fifteen years ago a tract on the Sabbath question left the REVIEW Office at Rochester, N. Y., passing into the hands of one who was already a Sabbath-keeping Christian. He, desiring that others should see the light, gave it to a friend, hoping thereby to influence him to an observance of the true Sabbath. Although it did not have its designed effect upon the person to whom it was given, still the seed sown was destined to spring up and bear fruit, after many days.

In the transfer of some books from the receiver of the above tract to another person, through mistake the tract was included. By this mistake—shall I not say Providence?—the tract came into the family of which I was a member. I gave it a reading. An interest in the Sabbath question was aroused, which resulted, after due investigation, in myself and wife becoming Sabbath-keepers. But this is not all. Three others in the same place embraced the Sabbath from the interest that that tract started.

At this time none of us knew anything of Seventh-day Adventists or their doctrines. We subscribed for the REVIEW and Reformer, sent for works on different points of our faith, and gradually embraced in full the doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists. After this, several years, we heard the voice of a Seventh-day Adventist minister for the first time.

This, dear friends, is the way the sound of present truth reached us; and it is reaching many at the present time through the same source. Let those that are especially laboring in the interest of the tract and missionary work be encouraged. It is evident that a great work is to be accomplished by the circulation of works in which the truth is taught.

May the Lord bless every effort of his servants to advance his cause.

ALBERT WEEKS.