p. 341 | Not without Witness

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 14, 1878

Not without Witness.

Eighteen thousand heathen in Tinnevelly, India, applying for baptism is one of the most extraordinary instances of missionary progress that has ever occurred. We do not wonder that the bishop of Madras, in whose diocese this is taking place, should appoint a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God, and also call upon his brethren elsewhere to unite with him and his clergy in offering praises to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

There always has been much to discourage earnest Christians since the organization of the Christian church. The apostles, in after years, must have looked back upon the defection of Judas and their own cowardice and denials with shame and sorrow. And since then there never has been a time when everything in the church looked well. At present there is much to discourage; among prominent evils, not now to speak of scandals to Christianity, the lack of seriousness and earnestness is apparent. So we may turn to this great event in far-off India and bless Christ that he has not left himself without witness to his love and power in these dark days.—Southern Churchman.