The Finishing of This Work

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 24, 1914

The Finishing of This Work

FROM Elder G. W. Wells, of the Minnesota Conference, we have received a copy of a few paragraphs from the last letter Elder B. C. Haak wrote to him from Argentina, dated evidently just before the illness that terminated our brother’s service. He wrote: “We have just closed one of the best conferences that I ever attended. The Lord came very near, and we felt his Spirit’s presence in a marked and definite way. In the workers’ institute and conference the slogan was, ‘The finishing of this work.’ The distribution of literature in connection with the home missionary work was constantly dwelt upon, and the entire conference devoted an afternoon to work with our magazine in the city, while all the workers went out every afternoon for a time among the people, and the Lord greatly blessed. The night meetings were crowded. . . . We are keeping well, but constantly feel our inefficiency. Our conference has a population of over seven million, with an area of nearly a million square miles, and we have only four ordained ministers and two licentiates. Surely we need your prayers and much of God’s Spirit. We long to see this work completed, so we can go home, where we can meet those whom we have been forced to bid farewell, yet whom we can never forget.”