Testimonies for the Church Volume 1 - A New You Ministry

Adventists. He confessed with tears. Then we pleaded earnestly with the children,until thirteen arose and expressed a desire to be Christians. Brother Ball’s childrenwere among the number. One or two had left the meeting, being obliged to returnhome. One young man, about twenty years old, walked forty miles to see us and hearthe truth. He had never professed religion, but took his stand on the Lord’s side beforehe left. This was one of the very best of meetings. At its close, Brother Ball cameto your father and confessed with tears that he had wronged him, and entreated hisforgiveness. He next came to me and confessed that he had done me a great injury.‘Can you forgive me and pray God to forgive me?’ We assured him we would forgivehim as freely as we hoped to be forgiven. We parted with all with many tears, feelingthe blessing of heaven resting upon us. We had no meeting in the evening.“Thursday we arose at 4 a.m. It had rained in the night and was still raining, yet weventured to start to ride to Bellows Falls, a distance of twenty-five miles. The first fourmiles was exceedingly rough, as we took a private track through the fields to escapesteep hills. We rode over stones and plowed ground, nearly throwing us out of thesleigh. About sunrise the storm cleared away, and we had very good sleighing whenwe reached the public road. The weather was very mild; we never had a more beautifulday to travel. On arriving at Bellows Falls, we found that we were one hour too late forthe express train, and one hour too early for the accommodation train. We could notget to St. Albans until nine in the evening. We took seats in a nice car, then took ourdinner, and enjoyed our simple fare. We then prepared to sleep if we could.“While I was sleeping, someone shook my shoulder quite vigorously. I looked up,and saw a pleasant-looking lady bending over me. Said she: ‘Don’t you know me? Iam Sister Chase. The cars are at White River. Stop only a few661