p. 124 | CHEERING by C. W. S.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 19, 1877

CHEERING

By C. W. S.

The good reports that are continually coming in from every direction show that the Spirit of God is at work upon the minds of the people. Compare the readiness—the eagerness, with which people listen to the truth now and that which was manifested ten years ago. People want to hear, want to read. This is not an evidence that the world is to be converted, but it is an evidence that God will gather out of the world a people for his name. There are still enough to oppose, and there always will be; but the very condition of things among the nations and society is such that the candid and honest are awakening to the study of the signs of the times. Now is the favored time to move forward all along the line.

Bro. A. B. Rust, writing from Texas, says, “As I travel over the country I find a good many openings for the preaching of the truth. We know that the Lord’s hand is in the work, and we believe that a strong Conference will be raised up here. We are receiving calls from every direction to visit and talk the truth. Our hands are more than full, and God is wonderfully blessing us in this kind of labor.

“A man living forty-five miles from here says he will find a place to hold meetings, and board a minister, and give ten dollars, if only some one will come. My brother received a letter from a Methodist minister some seventy-five miles from here, stating that he was interested in what he had heard of our people. He said he would read any of our works that might be sent to him; that he is anxious to have some of our people come and see him. So it is all around, far and near. Everywhere we go, we talk the truth, read the truth, and pray the truth.” C. W. S.