A Good Sign by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1879

A Good Sign.

By Editor

Eld. Butler, in reporting the Texas camp-meeting, speaks thus of the gathering and uniting power of the present truth. It is a cheering illustration of our Saviour's words in John 13:35, and while true brotherly love continues it is sure to bear fruit to the honor of the Saviour.

"I never more fully realized the power of this great truth to unite hearts and break down suspicious and sectional feelings, than at this meeting. How wonderful it is that this doctrine can bring together foreigners, members of different churches and of no church, Northern and Southern men, so that they will all feel perfectly united as a band of brethren. I know of no other doctrine in the world that will do this to the same extent. We well know the feelings of bitterness and suspicion which have existed between Northern and Southern people, yet I have never seen a people seem to think more of a brother minister than these native Southern men do of Eld. Kilgore. He was a captain in the Union army, and many of them fought on the other side. I have never left a camp-meeting in all my experience with greater evidences of love from the people than I received from these Texans, though I am a Yankee of the extremest type. No special efforts were made on either side to bring about this result. The present truth breaks down these sectional lines, and unites the hearts of those looking for the Lord."