Not Altogether Lost by J. H. Waggoner

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 9, 1875

Not Altogether Lost.

By J. H. Waggoner

SOMEBODY sent the SIGNS OF THE TIMES to some other body who would not read it. A man happened into the shop of the latter, and saw it, and asked him how he liked that paper. He said he never read it, and would not look at any paper that pretended to tell when the Lord was coming. His ungrounded prejudice was too strong to allow him to read enough to have his error corrected. But this friend had seen some of our publications, and was interested, and so obtained the SIGNS of the man who would not read it. To him and to his wife it was a source of instruction and consolation. And we have no doubt it contributed somewhat toward this family, living alone from other Adventists, taking hold of the Sabbath of the Lord. He lives seventeen miles from Hollister, and was present to give a good testimony in the tent Sabbath, Aug. 28.

Even when rejected, and apparently doing no good, the publications are silently doing their work. "Be not weary in well doing." The great day will reveal good done where we now see nothing. "Be not faithless, but believing," and work on.

J. H. WAGGONER.