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ONE DAY IN THE MISSIONARY WORK

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 22, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 17

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ONE DAY IN THE MISSIONARY WORK.

By S. Prosper

BY S. PROSPER.
After an earnest petition for divine aid, I started out with a supply of reading matter, and the resolution that no one should be passed by. I visited seventeen families, and all of them promised to read. Many of them seemed quite interested, and asked questions on different points of our faith. One man had been an Adventist in 1844; but after the disappointment he became skeptical in regard to the truth of the Bible. I tried to explain to him our view of the nature of the disappointment. He admitted that it was reasonable, and said he would investigate. Returning home, I felt that God had accepted the humble offering of a day in his service, and in the great gathering day I trust that fruit will appear to his glory.
Dear brethren and sisters with the “one talent” (and I suppose none of us will claim that we have less than that), let us ask ourselves the question, Am I doing what I can? or am I waiting for a “more convenient season”? Depend upon it that such a season will never come as long as we permit ourselves to be hindered by Satan’s devices. How many blessings I have been cheated out of in the past by the thought that it is but little I can do! There are none of us but can speak a word for the Master and “present truth;” we can ask the people to read our publications, and tell them we believe we have the truth, and we want them to have it too.
Of late I have been studying Testimony No. 29. How good the Lord is to send us such precious warnings! It seems to me the vision of the Judgment ought to arouse every one who has any faith in the third angel’s message. While reading it, I have been led to search my heart and weigh my motives as never before, and I trust it has been profitable to me. I want to so appreciate the goodness of God as to be led to an unfeigned repentance of all my sins, that when Jesus comes I may have “an abundant entrance” into the everlasting kingdom.