THERE is a great undertow at work at the present time which is seeking to engulf and overwhelm the children of men. The world is becoming infatuated and the minds of men hypnotized by the spirit of evil. God is being forgotten and shut out of mind. In the mad rush for wealth, in the struggle for existence, in the sharp competition of business interests, in the rivalry of national prestige, in the mad whirl of social life, in the excess of sports and pleasures, the world is being led captive by the prince of evil. We see it on every side.
In the midst of these disintegrating elements which are at work; in the confusion of tongues, the babble of voices, God is calling out a people to raise aloft the standard of truth, to sound in the darkness and confusion a loud, clear, eternal ringing trumpet-call, warning people of their danger and inviting them to the only true source of peace and rest.
The call of God today is for men and women who will face the situation as it is, who will stand against these evil influences, who will be true to God and the right at whatever cost. Heaven calls for young men and young women who will stand as did Daniel amid the corruption of the Medo-Persian court, as did Joseph in the midst of the luxury of ancient Egypt. Never did the world's history afford such an opportunity for true heroism as at the present time. Never was the call of God so urgent for faithful men and women to stand in the breach as today. And it is only as we answer this call of Heaven and undertake this work of reformation that we shall be able to withstand the influences of these evil principles in our own experience. Our only safety against the hypnotism of sin is to enlist in the warfare against it. We as a church, we as individuals, will succumb to these worldly influences which are honeycombing and permeating the great professed Christian church around us, unless we stand as heralds of warning. We can save our own souls only as we seek to save the souls of others from impending ruin.
The line of demarkation between vital Christianity and a Christianity of form and profession merely, must be drawn. We must stand on one side of the line. We cannot grasp heaven and the things of this world at the same time. We cannot, as Seventh-day Adventists, be governed by the spirit of commercialism in the world and be true to our profession. We cannot as believers in this message allow the spirit of worldly pleasure and dress and show to enter our hearts and control our lives and be true to our high and holy calling in God. He that is not for Christ in this great crisis of affairs is against him. There can be no neutral ground.
God calls today for positive men and women, for young men and young women of moral backbone who will die rather than consent to depart from the path of integrity, who will follow the dictates of an enlightened conscience and regard the leadings of the Spirit of God above the beck and bid of worldly associates. It will be hard to resist; it will take all that we can muster to buy the field; it will take the full exercise of every power in order to gain the prize at last, but O, it is worth while!
What are a few years of sacrifice, of self-denial, of turning aside from selfish, worldly pleasure, compared with the life that measures with the life of God? We are striving not for a bank account, not for farms, not for pleasant homes in this world, not for the honor the world can give. We are striving for a crown of eternal glory, a life of endless joy and pleasure, an eternity of bliss in the world beyond. This only is worth our effort.
F. M. W.
Christianity's Solution of the Problem of Capital and Labor
By C. M. S.
IN the great Los Angeles Auditorium, on July 11, at one of the meetings of the Christian Endeavor Convention, Hon. J. A. McDonald, LL. D., of Toronto, Canada, editor of the Globe, spoke on the theme which the heading of this article represents. In that address two points were made specially prominent. One was the leadership of America in the affairs and progress of the world, and the other was the mistake of the church776in effecting an alliance with the state. The following excerpt from his address will be of interest to the readers of the REVIEW AND HERALD:—
Upon the two nations of this continent (the United States and Canada), more than upon any other nations of the world, lies the responsibility of facing the problems of this time, the serious, menacing problems of living together peaceably and working together helpfully.
Christianity does not settle dogmatically any of the great problems of life. It lays down fundamental principles which are to be applied by the intelligence of the people. The motive of great service is not self-interest but love.
Because the church lost that vision splendid; because it lost that simple brotherhood manifested in the first centuries; because of the church's social apostasy; because it allied itself with the worldly institutions of its day,—it lost its evangelical fervor, and the world lost the Christian solution of the problems of life.
Because the church came to be a department of the state, and because the hierarchy of the church came to rank with the great officers of the state, these two things happened: the bishops of the church became absorbed in the mere machinery of the organized church and lost their evangelical fervor; and the church lost its primary social impetus. The church allied itself with the state, and its eyes were blinded to the things that ought to be. It was the tragedy of history.
But what about our day, with our problems of work and wages, our problems of capital and labor? The modern situation is simply a repetition of history. The experiences of the early church were repeated in the days of the church after the Reformation. The Reformation came with new fervor in the emphasis of the old idea; but what happened? In Germany and in Britain the church again allied itself with the state as a department of state. In England the bishops of the national church were called upon to defend the divine right of kings, and to stand for the Stuarts or the Tudors against the rights of all the people. And what did Scotland do? Scotland denied the divine right of prelacy to defend the divine right of presbytery. So Germany lost, and England lost, and Scotland lost, because the churches repeated the social apostasy.
But what about America? We have no national church. But all over America there has grown up an industrial absolutism more baneful, more arrogant, than any Stuart queen; and the call is loud for a John Knox or a church of John Knox to stand for the truth of God and the rights of common man against the arrogance and tyranny of protected monopoly on the one hand, and against the equal tyranny and arrogance of organized labor on the other hand.
If the church in America allies herself with either capital or organized labor, how can she view with level eyes the problems of work and wages? It is our business in our own lives and ideals to make quite sure that we are on Christian ground. “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another.” There is no other solution of the social problem because the deepest sin is selfishness. Let love come into your board of trade, your bank, your corporation, your labor-union, into your heart and my heart and the hearts of all the social order, and the problems of capital and labor, and all other social problems, will have been solved.
These are true words. In a Christian community, every member of which is completely governed and thoroughly actuated by the principles enunciated and lived by Jesus Christ, there will be no social problem to be solved. A heart thoroughly converted to God and completely consecrated to his service will seek always the interests of others before its own; and with that spirit ruling absolutely every member of a community, there would be no difficulties to be settled. Whenever and wherever self is thrust into society, trouble begins, and there are at once problems to be solved.
But we have no such community, and never shall have in this present world. Self is everywhere in evidence, and therefore there are problems everywhere. Socialism professes to be able to solve those problems by mechanical adjustments of conditions; but its weapons are wholly inadequate to the task. Its weapons or tools are law and compulsion. But the disease is in the hearts of men, and cannot be reached by any such mode of treatment. Dr. McDonald sees the conditions, and the failure of a united church and state to relieve them; but it is evident from his remarks that even he is looking for a time in this present age when men are going to be ruled by love, are going to approach these problems in the spirit of love instead of selfishness, and are going to solve them, and replace the present distressing conditions with a condition of love and joy and peace, domestic tranquillity, international good will, and fair dealing everywhere between man and man. That is the dream of the Socialist, and it is equally the Utopian hope and ambition of the National Reform Association and the Christian Citizenship movement in the various organizations that are working for what is designated by that term. They look for no such consummation of this world's history as the Bible plainly foretells. Says that Word: “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” But each and all of these great organizations have set themselves the task of proving that declaration of God untrue. They will bring in righteousness through the operation of the ballot-box and the legislature, and will then crown Christ as king of the world they have thus recreated and transformed.
This warning of the Word, “Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries which shall come upon you,” receives no consideration by those who are determined to bring in Christ's kingdom by legislation and by the defeat of certain men and the election of other men. The coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven to destroy the workers of iniquity and to reward the true children of the kingdom is completely lost sight of by those who are bent upon setting up the kingdom of Christ in their own way.
It is one of the wonders of this age that Christian bodies numbering far into the millions can be so deceived, and that, too, when the Bible is being distributed as never before. It is one of the evidences of the marvelous working of Satan in our day; and as we witness that, we may understand in a measure that other anomaly which we are yet to see when united Christendom, professing allegiance to Jesus Christ, will turn with murderous wrath against the little company that persist in worshiping God according to the dictates of conscience and keeping his law as it reads.
The statements which Mr. McDonald makes in reference to the union of the religious and civil forces in the early centuries of the Christian era and again in Reformation times are both a warning against the present Christian Citizenship movement and a denunciation of the attitude of the religious bodies that are seeking to bring it about, whether he meant it so or not. What the church did in those days was to use the state to further her own aims. The result in both periods which he mentioned was disastrous, “the tragedy of history.” But that is exactly what is proposed in the present movement, to accomplish the church's purposes through the instrumentality of the state.
If that was the tragedy of history in earlier centuries, it will be doubly so in our day when the consequences of those early mistakes and tragedies are written for our admonition. Will the church make the same mistake for the third time? She is doing everything she can possibly do to accomplish that very thing. All the forces of federated churches, of National Reformers, Lord's Day Alliances, and Christian Endeavor unions are concentrating their energies upon the task of making this present world the kingdom of Christ through the instrumentality of the state. That will be spiritual Babylon over again, and spiritual Babylon over again closes up the story of sin in the world when God metes out to her the reward of her doings. There is a terrible surprise in store for federated religious tyranny when it sees the result of its operations, and the frown of divine displeasure resting upon its consummated work. It is a fearful thing to pursue in God's name a course which God has never authorized, and attempt to force upon him a kingship which he disowns. Into that inconsistent course great leaders of religious organizations are today leading777the rank and file of the professed followers of Christ. It is another of the unmistakable signs of the hastening end of the age.
C. M. S.
The Advent and Sabbath Message
By F. M. W.
THIS is an age of changing emphasis in religious teaching. Doctrines that a few years ago were held as cardinal by the Christian church are now discounted by many professed Christian teachers. The great Book of truth is no longer regarded as the final appeal in matters of faith. Human philosophies and reasonings have supplanted in many hearts the old-time Christian faith of the fathers.
This condition of things chronicles a sad departure from Bible teaching. That it would come, the Scriptures of Truth clearly indicate. But though every religious teacher in the world might proclaim a new gospel, it would not affect one iota the truth or stability of the old. The truth of God remains unchanged through the ages. Heaven’s plan for the salvation of the human family is precisely the same today as it was in the days of Wesley, of Luther, and of the apostle Paul.
Different ages have marked the discovery and development of new truth, but these new truths have taken their places as a part of the great setting of truth of which Christ is the central figure. And while this is true of the great system of truth during the centuries, it has been true of every special truth that God has given to his church. There was no changing emphasis in the message which Noah proclaimed. For one hundred and twenty years he preached the coming of the flood, and so far as the record shows there was no departure in the last days of his ministry from the original message of warning which he bore to the people. In the warning to the world of the coming deluge of fire there will be no occasion for a change of emphasis regarding the message or any feature of the message.
Years ago this church adopted the name Seventh-day Adventists. This name was chosen because it represented the distinctive features of the faith of this people, and the message which they were called upon to proclaim. The commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,—this has been the watchword of this movement since its origin, and it will continue the motto till the work closes. Years ago this journal was named THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD. For years it has reviewed the growing evidences of the soon coming of our Lord. It has stood as the herald of the Sabbath truth. This name today as truly represents its message as when it was first chosen.
Allied with the advent and Sabbath truths have been other important doctrines designed to correctly represent the plan of salvation and meet the existing erroneous teachings of the religious world. Among these have been the nature of man; the state of the dead and the question of final awards; gospel finance or the Bible plan for the support of gospel work in the earth; Christian temperance in its relation to the physical and spiritual life; the principles of Christian and civil liberty, denying the right of the state to interfere in matters of conscience wherein is not involved civil conduct; the prophecies relating to this special age; the great plan of salvation as symbolized in the ministry of the earthly sanctuary service, and as carried on in antitype by our great High Priest in the heavens above; the work of the judgment; the resurrection; and the future home of the people of God. These for the most part are the great cardinal principles upon which this movement has been built. These great truths were preached by the pioneers in this message. Elders James White, Joseph Bates, J. N. Loughborough, and others whose heads have grown white in the service of this cause, preached this message in their early ministry. Those still living are preaching it today. It was timely in the days of their youth, it is more timely now.
Occasionally a brother has discovered some new ray of light. He has felt that it demanded marked emphasis, but has learned in a little time that it was a detail, perhaps an important detail, of the great system of truth with which this movement began. We need still to place emphasis upon these cardinal truths. These today constitute our basis of operation. Let not the enemy drive us from this proposition or switch us off from this base. No additional light which will ever come to this people will call for changing emphasis. Light will come; we should search for it, and gladly receive it, but it will never bring separation from these fundamental principles, and there will always be found for it its proper setting in the circle of truth.
These specific truths have made us a separate and distinctive people. May God forbid that we should ever lose this distinctive character. We may increase our facilities, we may add to our equipment, we may place before our youth higher ideals of attainment, we may raise the standard of education in our schools. All this should be done, but it should be done with the one purpose in view of giving to the world this second advent message, of conserving among men the truth of the Sabbath of the Lord. Losing this objective, we lose all. In the pursuit of this purpose is our salvation as a denomination and as individuals.
F. M. W.
Note and Comment
Another Military Mass
The Western Watchman (Catholic) of St. Louis, Mo., for July 3, 1913, gives the following description of a mass recently held at Cleveland, Ohio:—
CLEVELAND, OHIO, June 29.—One hundred thousand men and women, the largest gathering ever assembled in Cleveland at a religious service, attended the first open-air military mass in the history of Ohio Catholicism this morning in Rockefeller Park.
The mass was celebrated by Rt. Rev. John P. Farrelly, bishop of Cleveland.
The big crowd, composed of Catholics and non-Catholics, stood in a huge semi-circle, banked thousands deep before the altar.
Preceding the mass was a parade of ten thousand uniformed members of the Knights of St. John and other Catholic military organizations.
At 10:20 a salute of thirteen guns of Battery A, located on the upper boulevard of Rockefeller Park, announced the arrival of the vanguard of the parade. Facing the altar and at the left of the audience were especially constructed stands for the united choir of two hundred voices.
Inspired by the enthusiasm and eager anticipation of his audience, Bishop Farrelly extended his informal address scheduled to occupy ten minutes' time to half an hour. “My heart is seething with emotion as I contemplate this immense gathering,” said Bishop Farrelly. “It represents in every sense of the word the true manhood and womanhood of Catholic societies in Cleveland. It is a spectacle which charms the eye.”
Commenting upon this occurrence, the Christian Herald of July 23, justly observes:—
Witnessing such a scene as this, one might almost conclude that patriotism had died out in the land which Thomas Nelson Page, author, and our new ambassador to Italy, recently declared to be a country that was “made by Protestantism.” Before him, a long line of distinguished American patriots reached the same conclusion. Hence, when Rome, in the name of religion, sets her spectacular mechanism in motion to fascinate the masses here by the same methods she has always employed in older lands, she becomes a fair subject for criticism. She has the same right of religious freedom in all respects that other churches enjoy, and no one is disposed to deny her that right. If Rome can “make America Catholic” by her spiritual activities, it is her privilege; but the mingling of her own uniformed legionaries with American soldiers and American guns, and all the pomp and display incident to such an assemblage, make up a picture of Rome militant which, however it might be regarded in Spain, or Austria, or the Catholic states of South America, is an anachronism here.
It is only a few weeks since a so-called “military mass” was celebrated in Texas City, Tex., at which, according to the reports in the Boston Pilot (May 10), six thousand American soldiers and civilians attended. Now Cleveland, the sixth city of the Union in importance,778permits a “military mass” to be held in a public park, with gates closed to traffic, while a salute of thirteen guns is fired by a battery of the Ohio National Guard in honor of the event. Shades of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Lincoln! These are times of change, indeed, when such things can happen and never a word of protest or warning arise from a single village newspaper.
What would be thought of any other religious body—Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Congregational, or Baptist—attempting a demonstration like this? Could it be done with any justification in the name of religion?
A few weeks ago a Protestant officer in Spain dared to assert his rights by refusing to kneel at a “military mass” in that country. He was punished for his courageous independence. You can read the story in the Christian Herald of June 25 last. Not one American soldier or civilian is reported as having raised a voice of protest at Cleveland. Is it any wonder that the Roman bishop's heart “seethed with emotion,” or that he found the spectacle charming to the eye? America has begun where Spain left off when it permits to pass unquestioned a gigantic military display with uniforms and swords, under the cloak of religion. Every “military mass” under the auspices of the Roman Church or of any church, is an open concession to the advocates of the union of church and state. It is an encroachment far beyond the boundaries within which every church and every religion has its true sphere of action.
Misplaced Emphasis
UNDER this head the Northwestern Christian Advocate of July 16, 1913, gives expression to the following sensible remarks regarding the present tendency to drift away from the fundamental principles and simplicity of the gospel:—
The tendency of the age is to put a lessened emphasis upon Jesus Christ as the only efficient Saviour from sin, as the one sure and indispensable source of moral victory in every conflict with evil. So much attention has been placed upon certain helpful agencies in moral reform, such as temperance, sanitation, hygiene, pure air, athletics, playgrounds, eugenics, legislation, political reform, social uplift plans, child training, etc., that religion is lost sight of. It does not have that conspicuous place that it ought to have, and the subtle feeling is creeping in that it is not quite so necessary as men imagined. Heredity and environment properly conserved are very good substitutes for conversion.
The drift is away from the central to the outlying themes of the Bible, in sermons, in books, and religious journalism. Our camp-meetings are coming to be places devoted to entertainment and intellectual discussions rather than to the old-time struggle to save sinners. Semi-religious sermons, the themes of which lead the people to believe that religion is only remotely treated, are those we see advertised in the daily press. There is danger that the cultural in our Sunday-school work may be so pushed to the front as to occupy the minds of teachers and workers to the exclusion of the salvation part.
So on every hand Jesus Christ is obscured by the growths he has promoted. The inmost cry of hungry hearts, “We would see Jesus,” is not met in any broad and capacious way. People are shown where he has been rather than where he is; what he has done rather than what he is doing. Sin is a derangement to be cured by change of circumstances rather than a malignant growth that must be removed by the surgeon’s knife. The doctor has gone, and his office is filled with nurses.
The mind of the minister is so apt to be crowded with plans, schemes, and methods of social reform, the books and papers he reads are so crammed with near-religious themes, that the great facts of sin and of Christ are overlaid in his consciousness, and have not their legitimate commanding positions in his ministrations.
The freedom and feeling with which people once spoke of their religious experience and of their comfort and triumph in Christ have given way to entire loss of testimony, to brief and stereotyped forms of expression that ring of emptiness and insincerity, or to little preachments that present Christ rather as a valued acquaintance than an indwelling Saviour, and our prayer and social meetings have lost the charm and power they once had.
We would not decry the great importance of many of these things, genuine fruits of the gospel, that are moving so conspicuously in the forefront of religious thought; but we do lament the disproportionate emphasis that is placed upon them as compared with Christ crucified. We regret to see them usurping the place that Christ ought to occupy. The vitality will die out of the moral advance of the race, if Christ is neglected or forgotten. In him all fullness dwells, and without him was not anything made that hath been made, or will be made, or will endure.
Let him fill our private devotional hours; let us be supremely conscious of him in pulpit, in pew, and in choir; let him speak to us out of the words of Holy Writ; let him be with us in the Sunday-school hour; let him shine out of our faces, ring sweetly in our voices, and glow in our human touch as we walk along life’s highway, and we shall find that the old gospel has lost none of its attractiveness and power.
Seceding From the State Church
The rapidly increasing expenditure of the German government for war preparations is very materially affecting the state Protestant church of the country. This at least is the statement of the Pacific Christian Advocate of July 23, 1913. Every nominal member of the church, whether Protestant or Catholic, is compelled to pay for the support of the church to which he cleaves not less than twenty per cent of his income. Tax is collected from the church adherents, and if one refuses payment, an officer is sent to see that the demands are satisfied. It is claimed that many seek relief from this church tax, which they can do by seceding from the church, in order to meet the military tax, from which there is absolutely no escape.
It is estimated that in 1905 there was a secession of more than twelve thousand persons. This was increased in 1911 to sixty thousand, in 1912 to one hundred thousand, and it is believed that the present year will show a loss of two hundred thousand. Many of these who withdraw from the church have a struggle for existence, and feel that this course is the only hope of meeting the demands made upon them.
Decline of Public Worship
QUOTING the New York World, the Washington Post of July 25, 1913, declares that there are upward of one thousand abandoned houses of worship in the State of Kansas. A State conference of pastors and teachers in Kansas recently considered this situation. The opinion prevailed that the decline of popular interest in church services is due mainly to fondness for motoring. What may be said of the decline of interest in religion in the Sunflower State applies with equal force to conditions existing in other States and other countries. The conveniences of this modern age, the influences which work in the social and business life of the present time, do not make for devotion and piety.
No Divine Command
INTELLIGENT laymen who are willing to give fair consideration to the evidence in the case, are fully convinced that there is no divine command for the observance of Sunday as the Sabbath. Here is recent testimony to this fact. Rev. Joseph Keevil, the corresponding secretary of the Kings County Sunday Observance Society, wrote under date of July 17, 1913, to Hon. W. J. Gaynor, the mayor of New York, declaring that games of baseball were being played in the city on Sunday contrary to the law, and urging Mr. Gaynor to have the law enforced. We quote a paragraph from the mayor’s reply:—
I am unaware of any divine law forbidding us to play games on Sunday. If you think there is such a divine law, I should be glad to have you cite it to me and correct me. When the great Christian minister, John Knox of Scotland, went to Geneva, in Switzerland, to visit that other great Christian minister, John Calvin, and called on him at his home of a Sunday afternoon, he found him out back in the fields, playing at bowls with his sons and neighbors. He knew of no divine law prohibiting him from doing so, nor did John Knox know of any. Do you?
We are positively sure that Mr. Keevil will be unable to cite any passage from the Scriptures which will be accepted as proof by the legal mind of Mr. Gaynor, who was formerly a judge on the bench; for the simple reason that there is no such command.
He Knows
I KNOW not what will befall me,
God hangs a mist o'er my eyes,
And o'er each step of my onward way
He makes new scenes to rise;
So every joy he sends me
Comes as a sweet and glad surprise.
I see not a step before me
As I tread the days of the year;
The past is still in God's keeping,
The future his mercy may clear,
And what looks dark in the distance
May brighten as I draw near.
For perhaps the dreaded future
Is less bitter than I think;
The Lord may sweeten the water
Before I stoop to drink;
Or if Marah must be Marah,
He will stand beside the brink.
It may be he has waiting
For the coming of my feet
Some gift of such rare blessedness,
Some joys so strangely sweet,
That my lips can only tremble
With the thanks I cannot speak.
Ah, restful, blissful ignorance!
'Tis blessed not to know;
It keeps me quiet in the arms
That will not let me go,
And hushes my soul to rest
On the bosom that loves me so.
So I go on not knowing,
I would not if I might;
I'd rather walk in the dark with God
Than walk alone in the light:
I would rather walk with him by faith
Than walk alone by sight.
My heart shrinks back from trials
Which the future may disclose,
Yet I never had a sorrow
But what the dear Lord chose.
So I hush my heart's wild beating
With the whispered words, “He knows.”
— Selected.
West India
By M. D. Wood
M. D. WOOD
While Mrs. Wood was on a visit to our old hill station, Igatpun, a few days ago, one of her friends said, “There are two ladies in town who keep the Sabbath and call themselves Adventists.” When she asked who they were, she was told they were both school-teachers, and that one of them had taught in the Igatpun Railway school for some time. The other held a position as teacher in a government school in another part of India, but was for the present in Igatpun on a visit to her friend.
Naturally Mrs. Wood was greatly interested, and planned to meet them as soon as she could. We knew of no other Adventists in Igatpun. So on making another trip there in connection with her medical work, Mrs. Wood made it a point to call on these women. Both she and they were delighted with the meeting, for the women had never met an Adventist, although both believed in the Sabbath. Mrs. Wood had a copy of “Great Controversy” with her, which she lent them, and, in the time she had, taught them all she could about the Sabbath. They had already read all they could find, and one had been keeping the Sabbath since last October, the other since December. I can imagine how isolated and lonely they must have felt, not knowing where to find others of like precious faith. No wonder they wept as Mrs. Wood responded to their numerous questions, and told them how she was herself led into the truth.
One has a position where she has no work on the Sabbath, and so has no difficulty in that line; but the other holds a position in a Mohammedan community where she has been obliged to teach on the Sabbath. She told Mrs. Wood that she should return to her post and resign immediately, as she had fully decided to keep God’s holy day. “Why,” she said, “when you keep the Sabbath, how other blessed truths are made plain, are they not?”
Both of these are Anglo-Indian women of refinement and culture. They were greatly encouraged during that short visit, and they were much surprised to learn that there are so many Seventh-day Adventist missionaries in India. As Mrs. Wood told them of our work in India, the United States, and all over the world, they were made very glad and greatly helped. They asked if they might come to Kalyan to visit us and study more of these precious truths with us. Of course we gave them a cordial invitation, and shall look for them ere-long. They want to be present at our next quarterly meeting and meet their Seventh-day Adventist brethren and sisters.
So we see evidences that God’s Spirit is at work in Moslem India, and we believe he has sent us here to gather these jewels for him. Pray for us and for these dear souls also.
