Untitled article by Augustus McAllaster

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, February 18, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 10

Conference Department.

By Augustus McAllaster

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. McAllaster.

BRO. SMITH: I wish to say through the Review that I love the Lord, and delight to keep his Sabbath. Truly, his law is enlightening to the eye. Seven years ago, when I started to serve the Lord, I knew but little what it was to serve him.

Truly, he has led me in a way that I knew not of, and I thank his holy name for it. How good he is! He only shows us one step at a time, and when we are ready to take them as fast as shown us, then it is that we are making progress toward the kingdom. I am determined to keep stepping until I step into the New Jerusalem. That will be a joyous time. We shall not be sorry then that we have brought our bodies into subjection to the laws of God. No, we shall then rejoice that we have overcome our perverted appetites, and all the lusts of the flesh.

I thank the Lord for the health reform. I believe it is a part of the third angel's message, and I am trying to live it out. My diet is strictly vegetable, with the exception of a very little salt. No butter, milk, nor eggs. Some say, “Why, what do you live on? You will starve.” Others, “We pity the poor children.” But we choose to please God rather than our unconverted friends and neighbors. We are striving to overcome all our sins, that we may stand upon Mount Zion. We desire an interest in the prayers of God's people.

Yours in hope, AUGUSTUS MCALLASTER.

Wis., Feb. 1, 1868.