ENCOURAGEMENT by T. H. Goodsell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 31, 1878

ENCOURAGEMENT

By T. H. Goodsell

I give a few extracts from letters received in the missionary work, thinking they may encourage others. For a time I received no answers from those to whom I sent papers, but some have written kind words which amply repay me for the little trouble and expense it has been to send them.

A lady in Western Virginia writes: “I feel under many obligations to you for your kindness in sending the journals [HEALTH REFORMER]. I thank you for the interest you have shown in my welfare, and wish you could know the pleasure it gave me to read your kind words and receive the papers.” “I like your papers very much, and my mother has been reading them and is much pleased.”

Surely words like these are encouraging to us who can only write a few letters and send the Signs and other papers. We can have a part, though a small one, in this work, and God will bless our endeavors.

Another lady writes from California: “I receive the Signs regularly, for which accept many thanks. I know very little of your religion, and would like to understand it better. In these days of so many changes in religion, I hardly know what to believe. When I was a girl I attended church and Sabbath-school regularly. When I became older, the more I thought on these things, the less I understood them.”

Later she says, “From what I have read, I am convinced that yours is the true religion.” T. H. Goodsell.