THE WINDS AS AN AGENT by C. K. D.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 30, 1877

THE WINDS AS AN AGENT.

By C. K. D.

Some time ago, I met a young lady who was intelligent, but an unbeliever in the Holy Scriptures. She denounced the Bible, saying that it was no better than any other book, and that it was full of errors and self-contradictions. I tried to convince her that the Bible was true, and that there were no contradictory statements in it. I spoke of the Sabbath, the state of the dead, and the doom of the lost, with apparently good effect; for she admitted that these were truths that she had never heard of before, and that, after all, perhaps there was a harmony in the teachings of the Bible.

I mentioned our publications to her, promising to send her some if she would read them. This she said she would gladly do. As we parted, she said to me, If I am ever a Christian I shall be a Seventh-day Adventist; for I believe they have the truth.

I neglected to send the tracts as I had promised, and what was the result? A few weeks ago she called at my office, and asked me if I had left some tracts on her school-house steps, saying she had found a part of one of our tracts that had blown through mud and rain, and lodged at her door. She cleaned the mud from it, read it, and took it to her mother, and they both read it several times. She said it contained proof enough, even if she had never heard a word before, to convince her that we have the truth. I gave her quite a package of our tracts, and have not seen her since, but hope that she may be led to accept the truth and live it out.

Perhaps had not that tract lodged where it did, and fallen into her hands, she would never again have had her attention called to the subject. Surely, in this case the Lord used the winds as an agent to distribute his truth.

C. K. D.