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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 12, 1874

OUR WORK.

In a stirring article on “Our Work,” Bro. Haskell says:—

It was declared eighteen hundred years ago that the truths of the third angel’s message, which are so contrary to the natural heart, should be proclaimed before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. To-day this is literally true. In Norway and Sweden there are Seventh-day Adventists. Late news from Denmark reports additions to the numbers already existing there. France and Spain have living witnesses to this truth. Italy, the territory of that blasphemous power which changed the law of God, has her Seventh-day Adventist minister and a small body of Sabbath-keeping Christians. Late news from Russia gives us the fact that there also are found members of this sect which is everywhere spoken against. In Switzerland we have a mission, and a goodly number are observers of God’s holy Sabbath. Old England has a few scattered Sabbath-keepers in different parts of the kingdom. Even those States and Territories in this country which have never been visited by the living preacher, are found to contain more or less of our people. Leading colored men in the South, who have never heard a single sermon from our people, have been raised up to proclaim these views.

To obtain a correct view of the remarkable progress of this work, we only need to go back about twenty-five years, when the whole edition of our works printed in two weeks was carried to the post-office in a carpet bag, whereas now, in one week, seven cart-loads of reading matter, allowing thirty bushels to a cart-load, are sent from the office of publication to the different parts of the world. Do you ask for evidence of its prosperity? Here it is. And yet in our own land there are scores of cities and towns that have never had their attention called to this subject. What is our duty under these circumstances?