OUR EXPERIENCE MEETING

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jan 24, 1906

OUR EXPERIENCE MEETING

"Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another; and the Lord harkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name." Mal. 3:16.

DEAR BRETHREN: I praise the dear Lord this morning for a full and free salvation from sin, sinning, and the curse of sin, which is sickness. I praise Him for healing my body and making a new woman out of me, and for keeping me healed. I maintain this victory only through keeping low at the feet of Jesus, claiming His promises, and trusting in Him alone. And this continual holding on to the promises keeps me in such close touch with Christ the great Lifegiver. I praise Him more for this than for the healing. Praise His holy name forever. I am going on to full victory through the blood and in the name of Christ my Saviour, sanctified Healer, glorious Lord, and coming King. Yours in the faith, VIOLETTA CRUMP.

DEAR SIGNS OF THE TIMES: Death has taken your old friend and subscriber, John Freeman, who died Nov. 12, 1905, aged 67 years, 5 months, 24 days. He accepted the truth in 1899, and has since lived a firm and faithful believer in the Word of God. He fell asleep peacefully in full faith of a glorious resurrection. Funeral services were conducted by Elder Hardesty, a Seventh-day Adventist minister of Spiney, Kansas. A wife and five sons are left to mourn their loss. S. E. F. Cunningham, Kan.

DEAR BRETHREN: I came into the belief of the truth late in life, at the age of about seventy years. I have since taken the SIGNS OF THE TIMES and the Review and Herald. I look for them each week. I am now in my eighty-fifth year. I am holding to this life wonderfully, considering my condition for many years. I am trying to observe the rules of health as far as I can, by careful living and diet. My friends say I am wonderfully preserved for my age. I am a "shut-in," not being able to get out to where the brethren have gatherings, and am not able to canvass or distribute to any extent. I am trying to observe the commandments, and my greatest anxiety is, Do I observe them in a manner that will convince the people around me that I have learned something valuable which they will desire to possess? I have no other hope than in the mercy and righteousness of Him who has called me, and I trust I have answered to that call. I rest in hope of a part with the righteous as an overcomer through the atonement, and that, with them, I will be permitted to pass through the gates into the city where there will be no more defilement. Your brother in Christ, CHARLES KINNEY. East Otto, N. Y.

DEAR BRETHREN: About eight years ago, when visiting my niece in Pennsylvania, and while on our way to Sunday-school, a little boy of seven years said to me, "Do you see that white house over there, where the man is splitting wood? Well, he is not a Jew or a Christian, and never goes to Sunday-school." I said, "I'll tell you what we will do; next week we will drive over and invite them to go to Sunday-school." The little boy replied, "That will be the way to get them."

The next day I had occasion to go to the post-office, when I heard of a sick lady who needed help. I called, offered my services, and they invited me in. I assisted with the dishes, then got a little baby to sleep. The lady asked me to read to her. I saw some papers laying on the table called the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. I read some and was very much interested. It all appeared new and true to me. As I was leaving, a gentleman came in and said, "Take some of those papers with you." I said, "They are so good, I will, thank you."

As I neared home my niece came to meet me, and said, "Do not bring those papers to our house; my husband will destroy them." I said, "I'll lock them in my trunk, and we will read them on Sunday afternoons in the apple orchard." The boy inquired if I told the people we would call for them on Sunday. I said, "I forgot to tell them."

The next week I went home to New York. The following Sunday our lesson was on the subject of immortality. A lady who had visited the Adventist Church said, "If you will visit that church with me on Saturday, you will hear it explained in the right way, I think." I did so, and, after hearing the truth two Sabbaths, I could only wonder at my own ignorance. I visited our M. E. Church a few Sundays, distributed SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and taught a class of young ladies. They told their parents what I said. The minister called, and wanted me to call on all absentees belonging to his class.

I applied for my church letter, which I never got, and joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church on profession of faith. In the meantime my niece wrote me that she was expecting to unite with the Adventist Church in Pennsylvania. I recently received word that her oldest son had gone to attend our church-school in Washington, D. C.; and the boy who pointed out the man to me is preparing to go to Washington to attend our training college. The dear father must be remembered in our prayers, that he may be led into righteousness. Santa Monica, Cal. H. M. BARNES.

DEAR EDITOR: Since coming here, over nine months ago, I have found out what it means to stand alone with God, and I greatly rejoice in knowing that in every trouble I have a true Friend in Jesus, One who never fails. I am isolated from all who love the truth and keep the commandments of God, and when trouble came upon me there was no earthly friend to turn to for help and advice. So I went to the Saviour with my trouble, and He led me beside the still waters and filled my soul with hope and joy. Praise His holy name. God grant that all may have the same blessed hope and joy and peace that has been given to me. Your sister in the blessed hope, Peach, Wash. NELLIE BRAHS.

DEAR BROTHER: "We're homeward bound, homeward bound." I thank you so much for remembering me with the circular letters. Yes, we are in the conflict, and God is really leading us by the way He has shown us in His Word. We may praise Him every day, and more and more as we see the day dawning. Praise Him for strength to work. San Francisco, Cal. A. C. BAINBRIDGE.