WHAT CURIOSITY DID by Anton Moe

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 19, 1876

WHAT CURIOSITY DID.

By Anton Moe

I am a native of Norway, and am twenty-five years of age. I came to Peru, Ind., a short time ago, and commenced work in the Howe machine factory of this place. I heard that a tent had been erected down town, and that the preachers were soul-sleepers. My curiosity was aroused, and I determined to attend the meetings. The first sermon I heard, touched my heart, and I felt that surely the Bible was explained here with greater clearness than I had ever heard it explained before. The Lord opened my heart to the reception of the truth, and I was so intensely interested in the truths I was hearing that I attended all the meetings, except a few held when I was sick. I felt also that my former evil habits, such as chewing tobacco and smoking, must be abandoned. Therefore, by the grace of God, I ceased chewing and smoking, but not without a serious struggle; for my appetite was a powerful master, and I suffered many a severe headache in consequence.

My testimony is, that what I have heard, is the truth of God, because it has been the means of arousing me to a sense of my danger in following the flesh, and has taken such full and complete possession of me as, I hope, to make me a true child of God. May God help me to live out this precious truth, and be the means in his hands of showing this light to my countrymen.

ANTON MOE.