Our Work and Workers by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 14, 1892

Our Work and Workers.

By Editor

"Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters." "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy."

AN INCIDENT.

FROM a private letter from a dear fellow-laborer, Elder L. C. Chadwick, we take the liberty to make public the following:—

I have had some very precious experiences since I wrote you last. My visit to our German and French brethren in South America was one that I shall never forget. Some of them had never seen a S. D. A. minister, and those who received the truth in Kansas have been several years without help. None of them could understand the English. I could understand a little of their German and a little of their French, but the Spanish was the language in which we had to converse, and in which I had to do my work with them, as they understood it better than any other except their native tongues. One night as we were having a meeting in a little mud house belonging to one of our brethren, I noticed that one sister, who was a Russian German, and who cannot understand a word of English or Spanish, seemed to be deeply interested in what I was saying. Tears would come to her eyes, and she would often nod her head as though she was understanding me, and yet I knew that unless the Lord was helping her, such could not be the case.

After meeting was over I went with them to their home, and she began to tell in German to another woman who did not attend the meeting, some of the things that I had said in Spanish. I asked her husband to question her about how she understood, and she replied that she understood in her own tongue as the people did on the day of Pentecost.

Man's necessities are God's opportunities. If Brother Chadwick had spoken in French, the German brethren would not have understood; if he had spoken German, the French brethren would not have understood. He spoke in Spanish, which all could understand save this precious soul, and the Spirit of God translated it into her own tongue. Brother Chadwick remarks: "I believe that we shall have much more of this kind of translating before we reach the end." Amen. This is only one of the many tokens of God's waiting blessing. Let the workers grasp it by faith.