AN APPEAL FOR THE SPANISH.
By H. L. Rawson
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: A few weeks since I saw in the Signs an appeal for men and means to carry God's last message of mercy to the perishing millions of Spanish people. I am heartily in sympathy with the appeal. It is high time that we as a people were alive in the work of carrying the Third Angel's Message to those people, as well as to other nations. May an abundance of laborers and means be speedily forthcoming for that good work. But while we seek to send help to our Spanish brothers in other lands, let us not forget the thousands of Spanish in our own land. They are within our reach, right here among us. We cannot all go to Mexico, South America, or Spain, but we can do something in our own land for the Spanish-speaking people. If we cannot go to their countries now, some of us can begin work among them at our very doors. And while we bear to them the precious truth, we will gain an experience which, with the blessing of God, may fit us to bear the message to foreign lands. But whether we go or stay, we shall be doing a blessed work, which the Lord can make fruitful unto eternal life for some poor souls who are now blindly worshiping the beast. God has given me the privilege of doing a little work among the Spanish during the last few months. I wish my work had been more extensive and more perfect, but I can testify that it is a blessed work. Here and there I find souls who are hungering for the bread of life, whose countenances light up with joy as some precious grain of truth reaches their understanding. I cannot yet report any converts among them, but I am of good courage. The seed of God's word is being sown in hearts which on the whole are as good soil from which to expect a harvest as the hearts of so-called Protestants, who are fast becoming worshipers of the beast and his image. God says, "My word shall not return unto me void." I believe it will not, even if it is sown in the Spanish heart. Brother, sister, will you join in this good work?
H. L. RAWSON.
Santa Barbara, Cal.