Conference Department

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 21, 1868

Conference Department.

Exhorting one another, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x, 25.

This Department is designed to fill the same place in the paper that the Conference or Social Meeting does in the worship of God. Speak often one to another to comfort, edify and aid each other in the way of holiness and true Christian experience.

From Sister Rousseau.

BRO. SMITH: As I have so often been encouraged by reading letters from Brethren and Sisters, I want to express my gratitude to our kind Heavenly Father for all the means he is using, to strengthen and encourage those who are deprived of attending meetings. I cannot attend meeting often, and when I do, I cannot hear; hence I prize the pages of the Review. How many admonitions and warnings it brings to us! How often I am led to exclaim, How good the Lord is to one so unworthy as I. Oh! how I rejoice to think of the instruction given us through the gifts of the Spirit, and through persons who are endued with wisdom from on high. If faithfully heeded, they will purify, and prepare a people for Christ’s soon coming. I feel like redoubling my diligence, and doing all in my power to save myself and others. There is no time for me to stand idle.

I feel a great responsibility in bringing up my children. When I read the piece in the Review, headed, “A mistake of parents,” I felt that I was a parent, and that to God I must account for the training of my children. Let us all look well to this important work which God has assigned us, lest we come short at last.

ELIZA ROUSSEAU.

Iowa.