p. 158 | EXTRACT FROM A LETTER

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 17, 1877

EXTRACT FROM A LETTER.

THE following is from a letter received by one of our Battle Creek “Vigilants” from a man in Georgia. It tends to show how the Lord is preparing the minds of the people to hear his last warning message, and the joy of honest souls when the light beams upon their path:—

“I am fully persuaded that Saturday, the seventh day of the week, is the true and only Sabbath of the Lord our God. I have a wife and three children. We observe the seventh day as the Sabbath, and will raise our children to know no other, which we are obliged to do if we raise them in the ‘Bible truths.’ The way in which I came to know anything about you was, I saw a little notice of your Publishing Society in the Christian Index. I thought I would write to see what kind of a people you were; so I received the first books or tracts I ever saw on the subject. I then wrote you, and received the last lot, for which please accept my many thanks. I am much, yes, very much, pleased with them, my dear brother. Will be glad to get the paper, and will solicit subscribers for it.

“You ask if the people would be pleased to read your tracts. They most assuredly would. Many of them are very much exercised on the subjects treated upon by the tracts. I gave some of those I first received to the Methodist minister, who wrote a long article to our paper, the — Herald, on the subject, calling the attention of its readers to the consideration of the seventh day as the Sabbath. I think if he is not already, he soon will be converted to the faith. I also have talked to our pastor and several of the brethren. Such has been their eagerness to read the books sent me that I have not had an opportunity of reading them all myself. The minds of our community are very much agitated, and God being my helper, I intend to keep it before them, until there are very great changes, if these can be wrought in

a lifetime. To this end, I ask your assistance, and that of your people.

“Bro. R. was here yesterday, and we discussed the books and tracts at great length. He has been preaching three and a half years, and is well educated and well informed. We differed very widely at first; but when he left, we were nearly together. He had to take three home with him, with a promise from me that when he had read them I would let him have more. I wish I had a great many to distribute—fully believing, as I do, that they could be made the instruments of accomplishing great good in our Master’s cause.”