EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE
IN your letter you mentioned some new school books. I should like to have such a reader for my boy. You ask me about signing the pledge. I am glad that I can tell you that long ago I gave up the use of coffee, tea, and meats of all kinds. I am indeed glad that Jesus has been so good to me, and has given me help to overcome these things, for I could not have done so alone. Seeing your request in the REVIEW, I will gladly remail my REVIEW to any sister who is not able to take it. It has been only a few months since I could have it myself, so I can appreciate the needs of others. My mother and I are the only Seventh-day Adventists in this place. We do what missionary work we can, but the harvest is great, and the laborers are few. I feel that my home is the first place from which to clean out all intemperate things, and then I can tell others how much better I am without the use of them. A dear lady who is in poor health called to see me this morning, and I sold her a copy of Good Health, and gave her a glass of peanut meal, and advised her to get granose and use it. I see we must be careful how we put these things before the people. My husband is good to provide, but he does not want me to have any money to use in the cause. Of course, you know that it is my object to work for the Lord, so I take in washing or some other work to get money for missionary purposes. You ask me if I take the REVIEW. Yes, indeed, I do, and the Woman's page is a great help to me. In fact, the whole paper is almost as good as a visit from a minister. My heart often aches because I have nothing with which to answer the calls for help which I receive. We live on a small farm, and our neighbors are as poor as ourselves, so there is not much chance to work for others to earn anything. I am sure that I do not have more than twenty-five dollars in money in a year, but I manage to take the REVIEW, the Instructor, and the Life Boat, and I pay my tithe and give five cents each month to the Worthy Poor fund. Last year I gave a dollar to the school work, and this year I gave a dollar to the college debt, and also made a quilt, which I sent to the Life Boat Mission. Oh, how I wish I had more to give! Later this sister writes:— Since I wrote you last, I have been busy. I canvassed for the Signs two afternoons, and sold at every place at which I stopped. I even sold a copy to a man I met in the road. I urged those who bought the papers to give them a careful reading. I sold them for ten cents a copy. I have also sent for two copies of “Christ's Object Lessons,” and want to go out with them to my neighbors as soon as I study the book enough to present it in an intelligent manner.