Eld. L. C. Rogers' Work

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 31, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 29.

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Eld. L. C. Rogers' Work.

ELD. ROGERS has been laboring some time with a tent put in the field by the Seventh-day Baptists. He is an earnest advocate of the Sabbath. In a recent report in the Recorder he says:—
I have full faith in this method of labor. We could have gotten no such hearing as we have had, if we had not our tent. It is the duty of our people to herald this neglected Sabbath truth, whether anybody receives it or not, and the tent-method offers good opportunities. If any among us are weak in the faith as to tent-methods, let them come and visit our tent; there is nothing in our tent-work that the most conservative Sabbath-keeper need be ashamed of. There is no apparent prejudice against this method of labor in this conservative and aristocratic village even. The pastors do not come in at all, but the intelligence of this community is fairly represented—some of the "first families" attend. But what a sorrowful sight it is to see large and attentive audiences made truly solemn under the power of God's Spirit and truth, evening after evening, till impressed with a sense of duty to obey, their moral sense improved, their spiritual pulses quickened, and yet having not enough moral stamina, not enough of the power of true religion to swing clear of doubts and fears and prejudices; some trifling excuse sufficing to turn many of them back to the old and popular ways of error. Oh, how dreadfully dark the times are! And what a powerful test of character is God's Sabbath truth. There is nothing like it in the whole round of doctrines and duties in this respect. It tests Sabbatarians as well. Sabbath reform in general, and tent-work in particular, has, I am sorry to learn, been held up to the reprobation of our people, somewhat recently, by some of our respected ministers. This is a grief to many, all along our denominational lines.