THAT MONEY | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 15, 1862

THAT MONEY.

DEAR BRETHREN : I want to tell you a little of my experience, and of the goodness of our kind heavenly Father. Many times have I read of the want of means to help carry forth the precious truth to poor fallen man, and have often felt anxious to be the humble means of doing something to help the cause of truth, which thing Satan would of course try to hinder. Last summer I found that I could help a little by lending money to the Association. I determined to do so, the Lord helping, and truly he did help, for if he had not I should have failed to carry out my purpose. Many were the plans which Satan used to try to hinder. My employer also tried every way to discourage me. He said that I did not know anything about the folks out there (at Battle Creek), and he advised me as a friend not to lend my money there, for he thought it very doubtful about my ever getting it again. About this time I received a letter from Canada, written by Mr. Townsend, a man that I had never so much as heard of before. He wrote much against the visions, and against the Seventh-day Adventist people. I have heard of his writing to others, and I hope, if he writes as much evil to them as to me, that the Lord will give them grace to understand whom it is from, even as he did me. It seems as though Mr. T. and others would have been glad to destroy my confidence in God's people; but I love you still, and I mean to try to so live as to gain an inheritance with the saints in the land of light.

But to return to my narrative about that money, I will say that I have always been glad that I sent it. I have never feared but what it was safe, and even if I had lost it, as some thought I should, I thought it would have been the best way in the world to lose; yes, much better to lose in a good cause than to gain in an evil one. But instead of losing, I received it back upon application just when I wanted it, and before it was due, which I could not have done had I lent it to those whom I knew, and who were worth their thousands. So much for not taking counsel of those who have no interest in the truth.

CALVIN N. PIKE.

Jamaica, Vt.