Conference Department by C. W. Olds

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 12, 1867

Conference Department.

By C. W. Olds

Exhorting one another, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x, 25.

This Department is designed to fill the same place in the paper that the Conference of Social Meetings does in the worship of God. Speak often one to another to comfort, edify and aid each other in the way of holiness and true Christian experience.

From Bro. Olds.

BRO. SMITH: As it has been some time since I have spoken through the Review, I would say that my love for present truth has not abated, but is as strong as when I first saw its beauty; and I feel to thank God for all the additional light that is shining on my pathway. Truly God is good to Israel.

How kind is our heavenly Father to lead his people step by step from their errors, and prepare them for the return of his Son from Heaven. Jesus will soon come. The work is going forward both in Heaven and on earth. Soon the decree will go forth, “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still, and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still, and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still, and he that is holy, let him be holy still.” Oh! solemn thought! that mercy’s sweet voice will soon be hushed forever.

I would be in earnest and have a true knowledge of myself, confess all my faults and forsake them, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

The brethren in this place feel anxious to keep pace with the third angel’s message. We feel thankful for the light on the Health Question; and we receive it as an omen of our coming King.

Bro. R. T. Andrews was with us at our last Quarterly Meeting, and gave us some good food from the word of the Lord. We all felt refreshed to go on and gain a home in the kingdom of God. We have long felt the need of a place of worship and have made some efforts to get one, but have failed as yet. Now we feel encouraged to try once more. If we all take hold in earnest, with the blessing of God the work will be done. The time to work for the Lord will soon be gone. The Lord is calling for some of the means that he has lent us. Who will withhold? Soon it will be said, “Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your gold and silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire, ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.” Oh! may this not be our case; and if we have robbed God, let us do so no more.

C. W. OLDS.

Little Prairie, Wis.