Earlier text: The Austrian ProblemA MISSIONARY WORKER.
By Editor
THE following is a portion of a letter written by a brother in St. Helena, Cal., to Eld. S. N. Haskell. Although a private letter, Eld. H. takes the liberty to offer it for publication, thinking it worthy of being made public as an inspiration to other workers, and to show what can be done when the heart is in the work. We concur in this opinion, and are happy to present for the consideration of the reader the following narrative. This brother puts in six days’ work in a week at his regular business, and does his missionary work outside of that. His letter shows what he has done, and hence what others, unless more unfavorably situated, can do likewise. After thanking Eld. H. for an encouraging letter received from him, the brother says:— “During the past year I have sent away upwards of 2,700 Signs, having put every dollar that I could get hold of into the work. We have just ordered our new club, but I was only able to take twelve copies to begin with. It seems impossible for me to be reconciled to this small number, unless it is shown that we are not living in the last days, and that cannot be done. I have a field of missionary work opened before me for the coming year in which I could use more than 150 Signs. I have also a large, interested correspondence in Great Britain (including Ireland, Wales, and Scotland), Australia, and Egypt; and I cannot, nay, I dare not, think but that God will open the way for me. This work has become dearer to me than my life. I often retire to plead with God for wisdom, strength, and missionary matter, that I may work in his cause for the salvation of precious souls for whom Christ died; and not a night passes that I do not get up, and on bended knees pour out the desires of a burdened heart that I may so live that God can accept me as a co-worker with Jesus. I am anxious to have a daily connection with him, that when the silent messengers are sent out, the Spirit of God may go before them to prepare the way for his truth. “I cannot understand why we as a people are not more enthusiastic over the missionary work. Why do we stand idle all the day long, telling our dear Lord that no man hath hired us, overlooking the fact that he has told us to go and labor in his vineyard, and by-and-by he will pay us? I am more than charmed with this blessed work; and it seems to me62 that even eternity will not be long enough to fathom the depth of Jesus’ love in permitting one so unworthy to engage in it. I only ask him to make me one of his hired servants. Satan knows his time is short, that He whose right it is to reign is soon coming, and that God will give him the kingdom. Our adversary also knows that the time of his destruction is near; but many of God’s people will be taken unawares because they knew not the time of their visitation. For myself, I can say, Once I was extremely blind, but now I see, because old things are passed away, and all things are become new. I spent twenty years of my life at sea, and rose to be chief officer in the service. I came to San Francisco, and heard Bro. Loughborough preach; and the last nine years have been the very happiest of my life, and the past year excels them all. If I possessed ten thousand lives, I would use them all in the missionary cause, and in other work connected with the third angel’s message. May God grant that the slumbering Laodiceans may awake and realize the awful realities of the Judgment. I believe that this solemn tribunal must close very soon, because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. “It seems to me every day that the burden of missionary work is rolling upon me. I have sent 150 Signs at times to Egypt, and I expect to hear from Bro. Ribton every week with more names. I am also assisting Bro. Sanborn in his mission, and have lately sent twenty-five Signs to England to be used in jails and penitentiaries. I have also sent to England for a list of the English men of war, so that I can send our reading matter to them. I long to see the time when I shall be able to give three or four full days to the missionary cause each week. All the pay I ask for is something to eat and wear, and plenty of reading matter to send out to the people. I pray God to make me a missionary in thought and deed. Like good old Jacob, I shall keep on praying to the Lord, till he gives me all the Signs and other reading matter that I can use in his cause. On Christmas day I sent away 243 Signs, 70 Annuals, and 104 letters, which it took me two weeks to get ready. I would get up at three or four o’clock in the morning and devote two and a half hours to this work, and an hour and a half at night. I have done this repeatedly, during the year, and then done a hard day’s work besides; and to-day I feel as well as ever, though some of the brethren say I do not look quite so healthy. “The result of my efforts this year has been very good. Some who received the Signs and never wrote to me, are now subscribers. We praise God, take new courage, and press on in the work. There is a minister in Adelaide, South Australia, who is interested, with whom I am corresponding. “Our church is to be dedicated on the second Sabbath of the new year. It is admitted to be the best church in St. Helena. Its size is 28 by 48 feet. It will be dedicated free of debt, and we hope that God will accept it. Our people are all of good courage. “This quarter I have sent to various parts of the world 1,464 Signs, 500 letters, 700 Annuals, 900 pages of tracts; and have done almost all of this work early in the morning and in the evening. I hope that I shall see 350 Signs coming here next year instead of 200. I earnestly desire your prayers that God will remember me. I can work as cheap as any one, and I will try to do all the good I can. I hope that we as a people will be as earnest to advance the truth as our opponents are to advance error. Since I commenced writing this letter, I have received three missionary letters, one of which is from Edinburgh, Scotland. As I read it, my heart leaped for joy, and I exclaimed, ‘The Lord must open the way. O Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. Increase my faith.’ So I must pray on. “We hope, by the blessing of God, to see you among us again soon, that we may catch more of the missionary spirit.” —BISMARCK'S health is improving. —GOVERNOR VAN ZANDT has been appointed Minister to Russia. —THE losses by the recent Boston fire are now estimated at about $1,000,000. —DURING 1879 there were 739 fires in Philadelphia, causing a loss of $1,524,911. —BUENOS AYRES is to have a Continental Exhibition, which will be opened in that city, Sept. 15, 1880. —THE New York Times says: “We are menaced by a railroad despotism, and it is the duty of Congress to interfere.” —DURING the year just closed, about 20 ocean steamers foundered at sea, and their fate has never been known. —ACCORDING to the Missionary Review, the Greek church is making as rapid progress in Japan as the Protestant church. —GAMBETTA (Republican) has been re-elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies, which re-assembled Jan. 13. —OF the newspapers of Pennsylvania, 22 have declared in favor of Grant for the Presidency, 26 for Blaine, and 3 for Sherman. —PARIS has had 32 days of frost this winter, during which the thermometer fell to 8° below zero. This is the coldest weather on record there. —THE Emperor of Germany has devoted the fund of $80,000 raised at the time of his golden wedding, to the relief of the sufferers by famine in Silesia. —A DISPATCH dated Jan. 11, says that since the 8th there has been incessant fighting between the Montenegrins and the Albanians. It is a local feud, however. —THE British now have possession of Cabul; but there are rumors that another insurrection has arisen, and the Afghans propose to contest their right to the situation. —THE Western Union Telegraph Company have prepared a bill providing that the same inviolability that attaches to mail matter, shall be extended to telegrams. —MT. ETNA is again in eruption. Three new craters have appeared. Several villages are threatened with destruction, and there is great alarm among the inhabitants. —THE silk mills of Patterson, N. J., employ 10,000 hands, besides from 2,000 to 3,000 employed in their own homes. The annual production of these mills reaches a total of $14,000,000. —THE Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Company, of Bridgeport, Ct., has at present on hand orders for 10,000 sewing machines in advance of the capabilities of their immense establishment. —THE Samoan Islands have been entirely Christianized. Out of a population of 40,000, about 35,000 are connected with Christian churches. Of this number, 2,852 are Roman Catholics, however. —THE city of Deadwood, D. T., is a good example of Western enterprise. Eight weeks after being destroyed by fire, it was completely rebuilt, with buildings of a superior character. —THE distress in Ireland is very great. Many are on the brink of starvation. The magistrates of Cork are urging greater activity in “suppressing demonstrations partaking of the nature of bread riots.” —AT Deadwood, D. T., and vicinity, a disease similar to diphtheria is causing from 4 to 6 deaths a day. Adults as well as children are the victims, and the cold weather is likely to increase the mortality. —JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, in an article in the North American Review, says that from being the smallest denomination in the United States the Catholic church has in less than a century grown to be the largest denomination in the country. —A FRENCH artist has invented a system of colorization by means of which photographs may be taken in several colors. The effect is said to be very pleasing, the gradations of light and shade being excellent. The process is simple and inexpensive. —THE Tay bridge in Scotland, from which a passenger train was recently hurled into the water 80 feet below, was completed in May, 1878. It was two miles long, and was considered a triumph of engineering skill. The North British Railway Company have decided to take immediate steps to rebuild it. —THE net revenue of the New York post-office during the past year was $1,028,664; of that at Boston, $656,634; at Philadelphia, $635,964; at Baltimore, $235,714; at Washington, $57,035; at Cincinnati, $293,731; at Chicago, $635,954; at St. Louis, $295,629. —THE Gazette of Reno, Nevada, describes the soil in the bottom and around the margin of a lake recently discovered near that town, as “of a grayish color, quite tenacious, and with a hard smooth surface, over which a carriage rolls as smoothly and noiselessly as over a carpeted floor. When a ball made from the soil is thrown down, it will rebound like rubber.” —A DISPATCH from Rome states that the pope has approved the appointment of Bishop Elder, of Natchez, to be the coadjutor of Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, with right of succession, and to be administrator of the arch-diocese. It is trusted that his administrative ability will be sufficient to extricate the finances of the arch-diocese from their present embarrassed condition. —THE Chinese in New York are more numerous than most people know. There are in the city over 300 laundries, 50 groceries, 20 tobacco stores, 10 drug stores, 6 restaurants, and a variety of other establishments, all owned and carried on by Chinamen. There are three schools in New York attended by the adults and their half-breed children. Under these circumstances, Mr. Brown's mission among the Chinese, near Five Points, becomes an object of interest to Christians. —THE Island of St. Kitts, known as “the Mother of the Antilles,” has recently been laid waste by floods. In the center of the island is a rugged peak 4,000 feet high, known as Mount Misery. The streams from this elevation, swollen to torrents, converged in a gulch at the base, and rushed over the arable land, destroying an immense amount of property. Great distress prevails. It is supposed that 200 lives were lost. —RUSSIA, with all her domestic troubles, is threatened with serious foreign disturbances. Her relations with Germany and England are very precarious, and it would seem that an open rupture might occur at any time. The Inter-Ocean of Jan. 12 gives the following sensible remarks from the République Française, Gambetta's organ, as “French opinion”: “Without troubling to see all events well at home, Russia has cast herself upon the path of conquests and chimeras. She has taken the wrong road. Instead of following the Utopian dream of striking Turkey at the risk of obtaining but a meager share of the spoil, how much wiser it would have been to have entered upon a transformation at home. Her best policy now is resolutely to take in hand those reforms which the vast majority demand and expect. We must always reckon with Russia; but as long as she remains in her present unhealthy state, she will be feeble, and play an unimportant part in the destinies of Europe. When the house is on fire, there is a decided originality in running out of doors and setting fire to the houses of others. Reasonable people at such times endeavor to extinguish their own conflagrations.” France knows how it is. She has had such fires to put out. “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.” Rev. 14:13. LEE.—Died at Lamberton, Minn., Aug. 21, 1879, of diphtheria, Fanny E., daughter of P. H. Lee, aged 13 years and 8 months. She had kept the Sabbath about six months. M. H. BROWN. FRANCIS.—Died of membranous croup and diphtheria, near Clyde, Sandusky Co., Ohio, Dec. 5, 1879, Lizzie T., only daughter of Wm. A. and M. E. Francis, aged 6 years and 1 month. W. D. SHARPE. GREEN.—Died of diphtheria, near Raymond, Penn., Jan. 3, 1880, our little son, Oscar, aged 2 years and 2 months. We deeply mourn his loss, but look forward to the resurrection morning. CHAS. A. AND CYRENA J. GREEN. PACKER.—Died of diphtheria, at Dunkirk, Ohio, Nov. 22, 1879, Mary L., only child of Calvin and Mary Packer, aged 2 years, 7 months, and 23 days. Bro. and Sr. Packer embraced present truth nearly one year ago, under the labors of the writer. The funeral was largely attended. Discourse by the writer, from 1 Cor. 15: 26. G. G. RUPERT. FARLEY.—Died of membranous croup, in East Blaine, Me., Dec. 6, 1879, Darwin D., only son of Aaron W. and Agnes M. Farley, aged 4 years and 6 months. Funeral discourse from Ps. 103: 13, 14, by Eld. Taylor, F. C. Baptist. Also, of diphtheria, Dec. 14, 1879, their only daughter, Sarah B. Farley, aged 8 years. Funeral discourse by the writer, from 2 Sam. 14: 14. S. J. HERSUM. JEROME.—Died of typhoid pneumonia, in Roscoe, Ill., Dec. 21, 1879, Sister M. A. Jerome, in the fifty-fifth year of her age. For several years she had endeavored to keep all the commandments of God. She was respected by all who knew her, as a godly, devoted woman. A husband and a large circle of friends mourn her loss; but they sorrow not as others who have no hope. Funeral services by the writer. C. H. BLISS. PICKLE.—Died of diphtheria, at Golden Gate, Minn., Sept. 19, 1879, Myron N., only son of John E. and Nancy M. Pickle, aged 12 years, 5 months, and 19 days. He was patient through all his sickness. Of the same disease, Oct. 5, 1879, his sister Ella M., aged 15 years. Sister Ella was baptized about two years ago. She loved the truth, and in her last moments gave a good testimony. M. H. BROWN. TRACT INSTITUTE AT ADAMS CENTER, N. Y.
By B. L. Whitney
THIS meeting, we believe, will prove a source of great profit to the cause in the New York Conference. Although it was not so largely attended as we hoped it would be, yet every district but one was represented, and those who did attend came with a mind to work. Five regular meetings were held each day, and yet the interest continued good to the close. The presence and labors of Eld. S. N. Haskell during the early part of the meeting added much to the interest of the work, and all expressed great regret that he could not remain during the entire time. One of the most encouraging features of the meeting was the interest manifested by the ministers in the tract work. Nearly all were present, and took an active part in the exercises of the Institute throughout; and we have good reason to believe that all will take an active interest in the work of the society, and use their influence for the advancement of this branch of the work in connection with their other labors. The brethren parted with feelings of good courage; and the officers of the society, and, in fact, all the brethren and sisters, returned to their homes determined to carry out the instruction received, and to engage with new zeal in the missionary work. Keeping Both Worlds in View
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