Working for the Aged
Waiting for the Truth—It is wonderful how many aged people the
workers find who need but little labor to lead them to receive the truth,
Sabbath and all. Why, they say, this is what we have been praying for.
We knew that the Scriptures had much to say upon subjects that the
clergymen did not and could not explain to us. These do little else but
rejoice in the light and in the truth. Their joy seems to be full.—
Letter
[447]
18, 1898
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Life Begins at Conversion—I have just read the following inci-
dent:
“An old man, about seventy or eighty years of age, was once
brought to me, as a monument of God’s mercy. I asked him how old he
was. He looked at me for a little while, and then said in faltering tones,
while the tears ran down his cheeks, ‘I am two years old.’ I expressed
my surprise, and then he said, ‘Ah, until two years ago I lived the life
of a dead man. I never knew what it was to live until I met with the
life that is hid with Christ in God.’”—
Letter 160, 1903
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