Conference Department

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 15, 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.

BRO. P. W. BAKER writes from Jasper Co., Iowa: Myself and wife have been keeping the Sabbath four months, and by the help of God we intend to observe it till our great Deliverer comes, although there are none of this faith near us. I love present truth. I long for the coming of my Saviour, when I shall meet the sleeping saints. Let us be faithful unto the end. As we prize life, let us seek after it; for the life that we now live is nothing compared to that which is to come; and ere long if we are faithful we shall taste its sweets, and forever enjoy the society of the redeemed.

SR. N. J. LUCAS writes from Maine: I want to say that I still love the weekly visits of the REVIEW. Indeed I should not know how to do without it. May the Lord abundantly bless all who provide a way for it to be sent to me, as I have no means at present to procure it for myself.

SISTER J. M. REYNOLDS writes from St. Jo. Co., Mich.: I feel a deep interest in the cause of truth. If I can say a word for the comfort or encouragement of any, my efforts will be well repaid. I have been instructed, fed, and comforted, by the many good things the brethren have written, and encouraged by the many testimonies in the Conference Department, and if what I may write will be of any account, I shall be gratified.

My sympathies have been with this people ever since I found a little company in Greenbush, about two years ago. I felt that they had the truth. This spring I went to Allegan where I have a daughter who with her husband embraced the truth under the labors of Elder Loughborough, thinking to learn more of this sect which was everywhere spoken against. I heard two interesting discourses from Brn. Andrews and Cornell in Allegan, and felt that it was truly good for me to be there. May the Lord sustain them in their arduous labors, and succor them in every trial and temptation.

June 6, I went to Monterey, and there heard Bro. and Sr. White. Truly I had a feast of fat things. What I heard of gospel was not the only blessing of that day. The beautiful sight of so many young persons setting out to serve the Lord, gave me joy unspeakable. Ye dear lambs, where are you now? Growing in grace and the knowledge of the Lord, I trust. It is the only safe path in this wide world for you, the only source of true comfort, and Jesus the only never-failing Friend. All testimony will go to prove this. Then with singleness of eye press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. I hope to meet you there. Having heard a series of lectures from Bro. Kellogg of California, I returned to Sturgis, feeling that I had learned the way of the Lord more perfectly. I find one sister in Sturgis with whom I can take sweet counsel, and feel to say, Praise the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name.