Untitled article by L. Bartholomew

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · September 17, 1867

Conference Department.

By L. Bartholomew

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. Speak often one to another to comfort, edify and aid each other in the way of holiness and true Christian experience.

From Bro. Bartholomew.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I feel so much blessed in body and mind in living out the Health Reform that I greatly desire to again add my testimony in its favor, hoping it may encourage some to try it. Over five weeks have now elapsed since we commenced haying, which was followed immediately by harvesting, and I do not think I have done so much work in any five weeks for several years. My mind has been happy and cheerful, and I have never felt better nor suffered less from fatigue, and what probably will seem the most strange to those that never tried the Reform is that I eat only two meals per day, and have felt no want for any more. And now dear brethren and sisters, if I should tell all the blessings I have received in following the light on the Health Reform it would take page upon page, but I do feel that I can safely and truly say that after practicing the way to live as advocated in the publications from the Review Office, I believe it to be the right way. Those who have any doubts will find that the best way to remove them is to give the system a fair trial. I have never yet known any person to have any desire to turn back to the old mode of living, after giving this a fair trial.

Your unworthy brother, striving to be found without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, when Jesus comes,

L. BARTHOLOMEW.

Pleasant Grove, Minn.