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REMEMBER THE CAUSE

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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 19.

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REMEMBER THE CAUSE.

By John Norton Loughborough

“And those who cannot come, we ask to remember the cause in their prayers.”
As I read these words in the call to the Conference, in Review No. 17, the following thoughts passed through my mind. How many remember the cause while an effort is being made to advance the truth in their immediate vicinity, but, when such effort ceases, their prayers in that direction, are, in a great measure, at an end. They forget that the cause is one, and that all the while, in some place, or places, souls are being raised up by reading, or the living preachers, to decide on the truth. Silently, angels of God are trying to impress these truths upon hearts. If you do not see the work where you may be living, nevertheless, it is going on. Are your prayers ascending to Heaven that this work may go on? Are we all praying as ardently to God as we should, that God may send his angels forth to impress the truth on the hearts of those who read and hear, who are getting within reach of mercy?
But to the call in the Review; “Remember the cause.” Those words are full of meaning. In a few days the servants of God are to meet to consult on the best ways and means to advance that truth which is to prepare a people for the Judgment. What a solemn work, to present truths to men that will fit them to stand, or, they disobeying, seal their doom, and leave them subjects of destruction in the seven last plagues. How solemn, how sacred such truths! What fearful responsibilities are connected with the work! The work is of that character that poor mortals, unaided by heavenly wisdom, are inadequate to the task. The wisdom from on high is needed. “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.”
May ministers, delegates, and others who assemble, come in the name of the Lord, and all others realize that this convocation is to do, not secular business, but business connected especially with preparing for the Judgment.
May, indeed, all our prayers ascend to Heaven, fervently, that God's signal blessing may attend the councils of his people.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.