Two Good Reports from California by D. A. Parsons

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 2, 1914

Two Good Reports from California

By D. A. Parsons

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH BUILDING RECENTLY ERECTED AT BOWLING GREEN, FLA., THE HOME CHURCH OF ELDER GEO. I. BUTLER

The outpouring of the latter rain has been felt in California during recent months, and shouts of victory have been heard from its mountain summits and from its valleys and plains. Everywhere is heard the tread of a mighty army of men and women seeking for the truth, and many are finding it.

Last winter I labored in the wealthy beach towns near Los Angeles; but at the close of our August conference I was asked to follow up the interest aroused by the camp meeting. Elder B. M. Heald, Ernest Morrow, and Sisters Adams and Lester helped to make up the company. A stereopticon outfit, a new 60-x 90-foot tent, and five hundred chairs composed our equipment. The Lord blessed our efforts. Twenty-five accepted the message, making a total of about eighty converts during the year 1913. Of these fifty-seven have been baptized. Some united with us on their former baptism, and others will go forward in the future.

Humbled with a sense of our own unworthiness, our company is seeking grace from the meek and gentle Saviour to proclaim the truth with gentleness and love. Love is power. Instead of hurling anathemas from the pulpit, we have pleaded with the people to prepare for translation, and the subduing Spirit of God has led to a humbling of the heart. Never has the message seemed more precious to us, and never has its final and complete triumph been more certain. D. A. PARSONS.