TO BRETHREN IN THE SOUTH.
By Orlando Soule
I READ the article addressed to the brethren in Kentucky and Tennessee with the deepest interest; and I believe this appeal is timely—meat in due season. The evidences of the love our Northern brethren bear to the cause here are unquestionable. It is not (as some have said) our money they seek, but our lasting good. To those who are fearful lest there may be money expended to no purpose, let me say, Expand your minds so as to take in the vastness of the work of warning the world; then read the plain description Bro. Osborn gives of the system upon which this whole work is conducted, and be not faithless, but believing. But the home mission is of special interest now. Here are vast regions of country yet unvisited by the message—multitudes of people who are longing for the light of present truth. Do we love the truth? It was brought to us by the self-denial and hard labor of others, without cost on our part; now shall we not prove our love to God and to our fellow-men, and our gratitude for this, by spending our time and means to get it before others? No doubt the Lord will raise up several efficient laborers to carry on the work; but they cannot do it all, every one must bear a part. The T. & M. Society meets this demand exactly. The weakest can find some one that is interested and give him a tract; and then, bowing meekly before God, implore his blessing upon the effort. Seed thus sown will sometime bear fruit. I remember once sending some books to a dear friend; then I prayed, waited, and watched, to see the fruit of my labor, and, finally, gave it up as lost; but a little later the books were lent to another man, and immediately three persons were brought into the truth by them. The Lord’s hand is in this work, and it must triumph. Now is our time to work; let us be zealous and labor with all humility and patience, then we shall triumph with it. Bee Creek, Bledsoe Co., Tenn., June 22, 1876.