LETTERS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 6, 1878

Brn. W. Walker and E. H. Pullen are engaged in missionary work in Minneapolis, Minn. Bro. W. reports it to be a fine city; and as they visit every house, they find many pleasant people, and have many interesting conversations upon points of our faith. They think three courses of lectures in a tent could be given there this summer with the best prospect of success.

The following extract from a letter from Washington, D. C., will be of interest to the readers of the REVIEW. Sr. Olive R. Dalton says:—

It has been about three years since I voluntarily commenced my labors with Sr. Cook, in this city. We have visited from house to house distributing tracts, and have found many inquiring souls anxious to hear more about present truth.

A Methodist minister, leader of their “holiness meetings,” invited Sr. C. and myself to come to their meetings and take part with them. We would often touch upon present truth, but very cautiously; they would sometimes allude to Millerism, but we paid no attention to what they said.

I felt that I had a message for them, one from the Lord, and must deliver it. I tried to shun the cross, but the burden was on my heart. Oh how I prayed to my Heavenly Father to give me wisdom and understanding, that I might do it to his honor and glory. When the time came, the Lord stood by me. I spoke of the Sabbath and the coming of the Lord. I felt there was a solemn grandeur in the message. It reached the hearts of the people, and it seemed as though angels were near. I had such a view of God's goodness and mercy as I never had before. All fear of man was gone, and Jesus was near. The minister wept; some said, “That is just what I believe;” others said, “Amen.” After the meeting closed, I distributed tracts and gave the minister “Christ in the Old Testament, and the Sabbath in the New.” He promised to read. We stopped on our way home at an out-door meeting, and distributed a large number of tracts.

In a few days Sr. C. and I called on a family who professed holiness. The gentleman said he did not want us to come to their meetings and talk about Jesus's coming, and if he had been there he should have stopped me. We had a long talk on the Scriptures. The Lord was with us, and the gentleman was completely broken down; the spirit of the dragon fled; they took us by the hand and said, “Come again.” The man said he thought Jesus might come within forty years. I told him that we did not set any time, but hoped they would be led to see the truth. Sr. C. gave them THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES; they had had tracts given them previously. We bade them farewell, and I have not seen them since.

The following interesting extract from a letter from Sr. C. F. Phelps, of Cedar county, Iowa, will be encouraging to tract workers:—

I have been an interested reader of the REVIEW about two years, and wish here to bear my testimony to the great good your publications are accomplishing through the blessing of God. I have never met with an Adventist minister; but through your paper and tract publications, in the hands of a faithful T. and M. worker, I have been enabled to see the truth, and, by the grace of God, have come out fully on the Lord's side, resolved henceforth to be found among those “who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”