FROM SOUTH LANCASTER VIGILANT MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
This club is using not far from one hundred copies of the SIGNS weekly. These have principally been sent through the mail, and in return, interesting letters are being received daily. Quite a number have become paying subscribers, and have manifested much interest in the truth within the last two months. The following are a few extracts, which we give for the encouragement of those whose faith in this work is small:— “I received your kind letter and three papers. I thank you very much for them. I will send you the money before long for the paper. I think it is two dollars well spent.” Another writes, “Your favor came to hand last evening, and in reference to the papers, the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, I will say, we shall read the paper with pleasure and, I hope, with profit. Please accept our sincere thanks. Your kindness is appreciated by us. We have found some powerful pieces in it in regard to the Sabbath; and the general tone of the paper seems to be ‘Prove all things, and hold fast that which is good.’ We are but learners, and feel that we are in the A B C of Bible knowledge. Pray for us.” The following is from a person who subscribed for the SIGNS, and has become much interested in the truth: “Have received the SIGNS, with which I am very much pleased, much more so than I thought I should be.” Another writes, “Kind friends, yours with book and paper received. Very glad indeed of ‘Thoughts on Daniel.’ I should subscribe at once for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES if I could afford it. I enjoy reading it.” Sr. Mary Tripp, a blind sister living at Eld. Haskell’s, felt deeply for her friends, and was anxious to do something in the cause. Finally she joined the club, and paid a small amount monthly. The first paper she sent brought the following: “I received from Lancaster the other day a paper printed in Oakland, Cal., and I suppose it came from you. I was much pleased with it, and I wish to take it. Where can I subscribe for it, or to what place should I send the money to get a copy? Must I send to California in order to get it? Please inform me soon. Address,” etc. The following is from a clergyman who had received a number of copies of the SIGNS. He ordered a list of tracts sent him to be bound together for greater convenience in loaning. He writes, “I have great sympathy with you and your belief. I think you have a strong argument to sustain your doctrinal principles. May God bless you abundantly. If you have any works you would like to put into circulation, you have a great field here. I have a library which is open to all.” Scarcely a discouraging letter has been received in reply to papers mailed. We usually send one number at three different times before writing a line. In the first letter written, it is not always best to solicit a subscription, but simply to learn if they are interested in it. We have been engaged in this work more or less for seven years, but never with such encouraging prospects as with the present volume of the SIGNS. It is not against the interest of the work if two weeks should sometimes intervene between the times of sending the paper. If the person to whom it is sent is interested, the delay will only increase his anxiety to receive another number. Our number that meets regularly is less than twelve. SECRETARY. Since receiving the above, we have learned that two of the above-mentioned individuals have embraced the Sabbath. S. N. H.