Conference Department by Eliza Van Giessen

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 5, 1867

Conference Department.

By Eliza Van Giessen

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 or Social Meeting does in the worship of God. We speak often one to another to comfort, edify and aid each other in the way of holiness and true Christian experience.

From Sister Van Giessen.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I have been greatly encouraged by reading the testimonies that appear in the Review from time to time. I dearly love the present truth, and am trying in the strength that I receive from the Lord, to live it out. Never have I experienced so much of the love of God, and realized his blessings to such an extent, as I have the last few weeks. I know that the Lord blessed me when I embraced the present truth, while Elders Van Horn and Canright were preaching in Watsonsville, and I have not been sorry for one moment, but feel to praise the Lord for all his watchful care and tender mercy shown toward me. The truth never looked more precious to me than to-day. I believe the unmingled wrath of God will soon be poured out upon the wicked.

Shall we be able to stand in that day? My prayer is that I may have the Holy Spirit to guide and help me at all times to overcome all the temptations, trials, and cares, of this world. I desire to press onward, with my heart fixed on Christ. I desire your prayers, that I may be faithful unto the end, and receive the crown of life which the redeemed shall wear.

Your sister in the truth. ELIZA VAN GIESSEN. Tuscola Co., Mich.