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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 11, 1886

The Missionary.

A Letter from England.

IN a letter from Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, dated December 31, 1885, Brother Geo. R. Drew says:—

“Please accept thanks for the increased club of the Pacific Health Journal. It is highly prized here, and I am much pleased with it. Our friends in America will probably remember the action of the General Conference in reference to placing distributors on board the Atlantic steamers. These steamers sometimes carry as many as two thousand passengers. There are also many steamers going from here to India, the islands, and the various countries of Europe. These, too, often carry large numbers of passengers; and I believe the way will be opened for distributors to be placed on these vessels also. This work will create a demand for more reading matter. For the past two years some of our friends have sent us one hundred copies of Good Health, and now we get seventy-five copies of the Health Journal; but each of these clubs should be more than doubled.

“The people are stirred on the subject of present truth, and I feel sure that some will obey. A very gratifying interest is manifested in our various publications. Many buy and read our books. I am often greeted with such remarks as, ‘I am much pleased with the books I bought of you, and I hope to see you again.’

“A day or two ago I heard of one more in Finland who is keeping the Sabbath. There is now a call for reading matter on the Third Angel’s Message in the Finnish language.

“There is every prospect that a large work will yet be done here. Our courage is good to labor on, spreading a knowledge of the truth, for the Lord has said that his word shall not return unto him void.”