p. 47 | EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 7, 1878

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.

An aged lady, sister Almira White, says:—

I am much blessed in reading the REVIEW and other publications from the Office, and wish to interest others. Since March, 1877, in which month was my seventy-first birth-day, I have put into the hands of friends over five thousand five hundred pages of reading matter. I am not a member of the T. and M. Society. I live quite retired. May God speed the work. I very much desire some able minister to come to Alton and Smyrna, Mich., and I am not alone in this wish.

Bro. Geo. A. King writes from Ontario:—

Our tract society workers have obtained over seventy new subscribers for our periodicals, and hope to get many more before the long evenings are gone. The truth is gaining friends, and some are embracing it as the timely warning of the coming day. Those tracts, books, and papers which have been sent to friends here by those who have heard and accepted the truth in the States, have done, and are still doing, great good; and no one should imagine that his efforts, however feeble, will be lost. As we see good results, we are encouraged to labor on. Beyond the heavy night and the struggling hosts, there glitters a starry crown, and we can afford to toil if we can gain the recompense.

Sister Jane Mc Laughlin, of Madison Co., Iowa, says:—

The little company at this place was brought into the truth through the labors of our beloved brother, Eld. Canright. We now number about fourteen members, and these are considerably scattered, yet we have kept up our Sabbath meetings ever since Bro. C. left us. Bro. R. M. Kilgore visited us last winter, and we have since been more earnestly striving to grow in grace, and a more perfect knowledge of the truth. I feel to thank God that I have ever been permitted to hear and understand these precious truths.

I would say to Bro. and Sr. Canright, and to all others who have gone forth to labor for the Master, Be strong and of good courage. Remember the words of our Saviour: “Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.”

Brethren and sisters, let us be faithful, that we may be included in that number who shall stand upon Mount Zion, having the Father's name written in their foreheads. What a meeting that will be! I want to be there.