God Cares for the Seed Sown

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 29, 1914

God Cares for the Seed Sown

Brother Charles Degering, the secretary and treasurer of the West Caribbean Conference, sends the following encouraging experience, which shows how the Lord cares for the seeds of truth which are sown in honest hearts:—

“About three months ago I was conducting a class in the church, using the Family Bible Teacher as our textbook. A visitor came in one evening. I invited him to return, and he promised to do so, saying he would bring a book with him which he thought was the same as the one I was using. The next evening he returned with a well-worn copy of Helps to Bible Study, which he had purchased in Cuba a number of years ago, just as he was about to unite with a church which observes the first day of the week as the Sabbath. He told his brethren what he had just learned in the book, and persisted that he was right; so they rejected him. Since then he has been looking for a people who keep the Sabbath. Today he has found them, and is rejoicing in the third angel’s message. He had previously heard of our people, but did not understand how it was they began Sabbath at sunset; so he was slow to accept their teaching until I explained to him the time of beginning the Sabbath.”