Saskatchewan Conference by A. C. Gilbert

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 13, 1916

Saskatchewan Conference

By A. C. Gilbert

DURING the past year the work of the Lord in this province has moved forward very encouragingly. All the progress that has been made is due to the mercy and goodness of our heavenly Father.

Wherever our workers have labored, souls have taken hold of this precious truth. Our workers, though very few, are of good courage, and are striving for victory over every sin, to make room for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the fulness of power.

In tithes and offerings our brethren and sisters throughout the province have shown themselves deeply interested in the extension of the gospel. The first seven months of the year gave us the required amount for the whole year for the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund. We are happy to see this zeal for the cause of missions in foreign lands.

Our home missions need strengthening, and we are hopeful of meeting the demands that will be made upon us during the new year. We are in the midst of establishing a school for the education of the young people of our field. This is a large undertaking for so small a constituency as we have in this conference, but God has wonderfully opened a way, and in accepting this opportunity we shall be able to save many thousands of dollars that would ordinarily have to be expended to place the school enterprise on a suitable basis.

Home missionary institutes were held last winter in all our churches. The same is being done again this winter. This line of endeavor has been among the most profitable of all the various lines of work that we have carried forward in this conference. As the result of the home missionary work, many seekers for truth have been called to our attention, and many openings for evangelistic work are waiting for us to enter.

When all our people everywhere are thoroughly aroused to the heavy responsibility that rests upon them to labor personally for souls, we shall see the manifestation of God's power in the outpouring of the “latter rain;” we shall hear the “loud cry” of the third angel calling upon the honest to flee out of Babylon; we shall behold the quick finishing of the work of God in the earth, and then the coming of the Lord.

We are anxious as a conference to bear our part with our sister conferences throughout the world in shouldering the tremendous responsibilities that lie before us. Our workers and lay members are of good courage, and are praying for the success of the cause in every land where the banner of truth is waving today.

A. C. GILBERT.