THE MESSAGE RISING by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 10, 1876

THE MESSAGE RISING.

By Uriah Smith

Bro. Downer, of Wisconsin, in a private note speaks of the blessing he is enjoying where he is now holding meetings, and the encouragement he feels in the work, and says: “People are hungering for the truth, and the message is going as never before within my knowledge.”

The readiness of the people to hear the truth at the present time is shown by a letter we have just received from a sister in Saginaw Co., Mich. She has been distributing reading matter in her neighborhood more or less for the past two years. Some twenty-five families have been reading the VOICE OF TRUTH the past year.

Within the past two weeks she has visited thirty-two families. And now ninety-five persons, adults, have handed her their names to be attached to a petition for some minister to come and preach to them on the subjects set forth in the papers. She says that if no one can be found to come it will be the greatest disappointment ever experienced in that neighborhood.

Bro. Haskell writes that the brethren in the State of New York, are getting waked up to see what can be done by the rank and file in the way of spreading a knowledge of the truth before the people. And tangible proof of this is given in the rapid orders that are coming in for reading matter of all kinds.

The millions of pages of books and tracts that have been circulated cannot fail to produce a marked result. They are rapidly preparing the soil for the seeds of truth, and the efforts of the living preacher. We may look for a rich harvest by and by. By well tempered zeal and fervent prayers, let us hasten the day.

U. S.