Conference Department

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 26, 1868

Conference Department.

Exhorting one another, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching. Heb. 10, 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 Bro. Abbott.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I send these few lines, being prevented from coming in person, to enjoy a season of religious worship with the people of my choice. May you have an abundance of the spirit and grace of God in your deliberations, and in your religious exercises. How has my heart yearned to hear the gospel from those earnest, devoted brethren, who are battling for the truth, and who will be with you at this yearly gathering.

Dear brethren, my convictions are unshaken and unwavering, that the truth is with you, and that you are God's people indeed, if you “follow on to know the Lord.” I bless God that I feel in union with the faith that is self-denying of all ungodliness, and purifying in its work, even to sanctification of the soul, and spirit, and body. Though far away, and unable to be with you in your gatherings, I still feel that I am one of you; therefore, brethren, pray for me also, that I may be steadfast, unmovable, and always abounding in the work of the Lord. This I trust will ever be the prayer of

Your brother in Christ, S. M. ABBOTT.