A Day of Fasting and Prayer
In the last issue of The Southern Watchman Elder Geo. I. Butler, the president of the Southern Union Conference, makes the following announcement:— After due consideration by the leading brethren present at the anniversary meetings in Nashville, and the full indorsement of the Union Conference Committee, it has been thought best to appoint Sabbath, February 11, as a day of fasting and prayer, a solemn day in which to seek God that he may give us help in all our difficulties and perplexities in this Southern Union Conference. We can only appoint this day of solemn prayer and fasting for the Southern Union Conference. But we know we have hosts of friends in the North and elsewhere who are earnestly watching and longing to see the work move forward here in the South. We hope it will be agreeable to them to unite with us in this appointed day of fasting and prayer and that our prayers may all go up unitedly to God that he will help us in this great Southern field.