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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 9, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 19.

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WHY WE REJOICE.

By William Ings

We, with our brethren, rejoice in the prosperity and success of the truths which we as a people cherish. We can look back only a few years, and remember what emotions of gratitude we felt when we saw in the columns of the REVIEW reports that a score of precious souls had received the Sabbath as the result of a week's labor. But the truth has so spread that converts to the down-trodden Sabbath are no longer counted by scores, but by hundreds.
An account has been kept of reports in the REVIEW AND HERALD and SIGNS OF THE TIMES for five weeks, commencing with the last week in February. The result shows that seven hundred and seventeen have identified themselves with those observing the seventh-day Sabbath. These have all received our views through the direct labors of our ministers. Hundreds are being gathered into the gospel net by reading our publications; and these are not reckoned in the above figures. Truly we have reason to be encouraged, and it should stimulate us to activity. God is preparing minds everywhere for the reception of the last warning message.
A letter just received from England tells us that the people are hungering for the truth. A good sister who has been in the truth but a short time, and who is poor in this world's goods, but filled with love for souls, finds many willing to read; and those that cannot read for themselves listen to her. Truly the Lord is good in giving us the light. People may scoff, as when Noah preached that the flood was coming upon the earth; but notwithstanding the unbelief of men in this generation, the message is going with power, and it will continue to increase in power until the warning has been given, and all the honest have been gathered in one faith, believing the plain declarations of God's word, that the seventh day is the Sabbath, and that Christ will come visibly in the clouds of heaven to gather those who have been looking for him.
Bâle, Suisse. WILLIAM INGS.