A Special Appointment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Dec 5, 1907

A Special Appointment

THE General Conference Committee has appointed the first Sabbath of the week of prayer, December 14, as a day of fasting and prayer. We invite all our people to make this day one of most earnest and united intercession. We need not here attempt to refer to the large volume of Scripture teaching, showing that, as the Lord's people come to places where more than ordinary blessings are needed, they are to seek God with fasting and prayer. The time of crisis in the work and in the world, so long looked for by this people, is visibly closing in. In some lands of enforced military service our people are just now under the severest pressure, owing to determined efforts to compel our youth to give up the Sabbath. Details are supplied in a letter being sent to conference workers and church elders. We should earnestly seek God in behalf of our brethren, that fortitude may be theirs in sorest trial, and that deliverance may come in such a way as will glorify God. These things, however, show how quickly the final struggle may break upon us in all lands. In America and in many countries the Sunday-law issue is being pressed with unprecedented force. Are we ready for the last scenes in the history of the message? All will say that we need the special blessing of God to fit us for the last days in the closing work. We must arouse, cut loose from the world, put away sin, and seek continually for the converting power of God in our daily lives, in our families, and in our churches. The message is to be borne to every community about us. The great mission field must be warned. There is a call for laborers and for means beyond all ordinary effort. The situation solemnly appeals to us unitedly to seek God, as a people face to face with eternity, and with a great and definite work committed to us. We urge that Sabbath, December 14, be observed as a day of solemn fasting and prayer among our people everywhere.

GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.