p. 24 | A Spiritual Meeting

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 11, 1915

A Spiritual Meeting

WE do not usually think of bookmen’s conventions and meetings of tract society and missionary secretaries, where plans and methods for carrying on the work are to be considered, as meetings of a deeply spiritual character. Some such meetings have not been, but this was not the case, in the meeting that closed this week in Takoma Park, D. C. More than threescore workers came together for counsel. This number included the State agents and missionary secretaries in the Columbia, Lake, Atlantic, and Eastern Canadian Union Conferences, and those occupying corresponding positions in the local conferences in these unions. An excellent spirit pervaded these meetings throughout. Many interesting experiences were related, showing the manner in which the providence of the Lord is opening the way for the entrance of this message into the hearts and homes of the people.

Methods and plans for work were considered, not in their relationship to the machinery of this movement alone, but in their more particular bearings as related to the conversion of souls. One could not look into the faces of the earnest men and women making up this gathering, and listen to their words of courage, without feeling the thrill of a new enthusiasm in behalf of the spread of this message.

The keynote of the convention was the evangelization of the world through the agency of our publications. What methods are best adapted to the accomplishment of this end? How can we as Christian workers bring ourselves to that state of efficiency where we shall be workmen “that needeth not to be ashamed,” rightly representing God and his precious truths? These were the questions raised in various forms by many who were present. An extended report of this excellent meeting will be given later.