Florida by W. H. Smith

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 26, 1914

Florida

By W. H. Smith

JACKSONVILLE. — Sabbath, March 7, was a day long to be remembered by the Jacksonville church, when five believers followed their Lord in baptism. Not only was it a cause of rejoicing because of those who had thus surrendered their lives to God, but all believe that it is but an index of what the Lord has for us ere the summer passes.

It is now about four months since we left our much-loved field, Newark, N. J., and landed in Jacksonville. Never has there been one moment since we took up the work here that we have doubted that it was the hand of God that brought us to this field. Every week that passes we are convinced more fully that Jacksonville has many honest souls who are hungering for the truth for this time; and what Heaven requires is earnest heart-to-heart work on the part of his servants, that we may act the part of faithful hunters in searching them out. The longer I engage in the work of soul saving, the more fully I am brought to see the force of the statement made by the spirit of prophecy, that "when the minister steps down from the pulpit, his work is not half done."

We are planning to pitch our tent about the first of April in a part of the city that has never heard the truth for this time, and we earnestly pray that all who read these lines will remember us at the throne of grace, that a harvest of souls may be the result of our summer's work.

W. H. Smith.