DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYER.
In view of the important time in which we live, the nearness to the Judgment, and the amount of work which should be accomplished in our own State, the feebleness of some of our ministers, and the inability of ourselves, without God, to accomplish anything, also realizing, from the blessings received at our late camp-meeting, God's willingness to help us when we do what we can, we appoint Sabbath, Oct. 23, as a day of fasting and prayer. The object before us should be 1st. That we individually may be enabled to so act our part in this work that God can hear our prayer and bless our efforts. 2d. That God will strengthen and fit up our ministers, who are physically weak, that they may be able to enter the field, and 3d. That God may pour out his Spirit in a special manner on our ministry, and other laborers in the harvest field, and also give success to the publishing interest in our midst. We suggest that this day be spent by ministers and people, in humbling ourselves before God, in confessing our sins, and in prayer for God's blessing. We recommend that Daniel 9:3–23 be read at this time, and his course be followed. This is God's work in which we are engaged, and he is more willing to give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him than parents are to give good gifts unto their children. Therefore, it is our sins and coldness which separate us from God, and prevent his working mightily for us in behalf of his precious truth. In returning to him, we recommend faithfulness on our part, as required in Malachi 3:7, 8, and the performance of duties which we may have thought to be trivial in the past, such as joining the missionary society, and doing some little service for the Lord. This should not be simply a theoretical move, but a turning of the heart to God. We need God to go before us, and give us this year a harvest of souls, and for his own name's sake he will do this. S. N. HASKELL,
M. C. ISRAEL,
JOHN MORRISON,
} Cal. Conf. Com.