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A Leaf From the Diary of a New Sabbath Keeper

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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 14.

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A Leaf From the Diary of a New Sabbath Keeper

By E. M. GRAHAM.

“ “EXCEPT the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.’ These words came home to me very forcibly after trying to persuade some of my friends to accept the Free Circulating Library. Before starting out I asked the Lord to open their hearts to accept the message which I was about to present to them. Now, I know that I was asking the Lord to make it easy for me, and I forgot to ask him where to go, and so of course I failed in every way, and I am ashamed to say that I lacked the courage to present the message at one place.
"I returned home greatly humiliated and depressed, knowing that the fault was in me. I sat down, opened my Bible, and these are the words on which my eyes rested: 'And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.' John 14:13. I knelt down and told the Lord I could do nothing without his help. I said, 'Lord, tell me where to go, and that will I do; and all I ask is that thou wilt go with me, and speak to me, and help me do thy will.' The next morning he told me to go to a place that I had never heard of before, and the woman was almost a stranger; but with the Lord's help I found her, and she received me as one might a friend from a long journey. She immediately inquired where the Seventh-day Adventists had gone after moving from their former place of meeting, and was rejoiced to find that she could hear the blessed truth preached again.
"I gave her No. 1 of the Free Circulating Library tracts, and she was truly rejoiced to receive it. She said she had been a very devout Catholic all her life until she picked up a notice of the Seventh-day Adventist meetings. She was led by the Spirit of the Lord to attend, and now she is reading her Bible and attends our meetings. I thank God for all his mercies, and that I, even I, am accounted worthy to carry his message to those who sit in darkness."
This experience was sent in by a new Sabbath keeper, who recently accepted the truth through missionary work. Some one having given her the truth, she was impelled to carry it to others. This is according to the plan of God, that every one who learns this truth should become an instrument in his hands to give it to others.
E. M. GRAHAM.