ENCOURAGING by C. W. S.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 2, 1876

ENCOURAGING

By C. W. S.

A short time since, a letter was received at this Office from a man in Minnesota, making inquiry concerning the faith of S. D. Adventists, and desiring that a preacher might be sent to his place. It seems that his attention was first arrested by reading a copy of one of our periodicals that chanced to fall into his hands.

Bro. Ings sent his letter to the president of that State Conference, and as a present aid sent the man a few tracts. Oct. 13, Bro. Ings received another letter from him, in which he states that those tracts have been read by a great many people, and by some, as glad news.

He says, “I have had some brisk arguments in regard to them, and I get almost my whole argument from that handful of tracts that you sent me. May the Lord bless you, dear brother, in the good work you did in sending them; and if it were possible for me to pay you, I would do so, and order a large amount besides to distribute in this part of the country; but I live in the grasshopper district, and have a hard time to get a living this year. There are a great many in this part that are greatly interested in the truth of this last message, and I would delight in giving them a bounteous supply of just such indisputable facts as are contained in those tracts.”

We hear from a lady, a poor woman, living in Oswego Co., N. Y. Through the missionary labors of some one, she was persuaded to read the Voice of Truth. She says, “I became an attentive reader, though at first exceedingly adverse to its doctrinal teachings; yet, as I continued its perusal till the close of its publication, and subsequently that of the Review till the close of the year, I became more and more convinced of the truth of its doctrines; and now I must say that I have received more comfort from its teachings than I ever did from any other source except the Bible.”

A man living in Aldin, Minn., sends $25; and he says, “Do with it as you think best. I wanted it to aid in sending some one here to preach the truth.”

Thus we see the seed sown by the missionary workers springing up and bearing fruit. Scores of such cases might be related.

Thus we see the people want to hear the pure truth of the Bible. May the missionary workers take courage; and may the Lord raise up more laborers for the field. C. W. S.