The General Conference Session by F. M. W.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 13, 1913

The General Conference Session

By F. M. W.

THE next General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will open at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., May 15, 1913. It will be the most important meeting ever held by this denomination. This will be true in the very nature of the case. Our work has grown to greater proportions, and greater questions are involved in its promotion and administration; at this meeting the representation will be larger than at any preceding meeting; from every part of the world will come delegates and workers bringing for consideration perplexing questions relating to the work in their particular fields; important questions of finance and organization must be considered; men and women will be chosen as standard-bearers for another quadrennial term; the denomination will be brought face to face as never before with the great work of the world's evangelization which has been committed to it, and larger plans for the development and carrying forward of the gospel message will be considered. These internal conditions and questions affecting the church, together with the state of affairs in the world, the fulfilling of the prophetic word, the marshaling of the forces that are to combine eventually against truth and right, emphasize the great importance of the coming General Conference meeting.

In dealing with these important subjects, how great the need of the spirit and wisdom of heaven! How great the need of a divine unction, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, to prepare the church to take part in the final conflict before us! Most appropriate indeed is it that the coming meeting be made an object of earnest prayer on the part of all our people. Pray that every delegate that attends the meeting may be a man of God, and may take with him to the gathering the spirit and wisdom of heaven. Pray that the committees which shall be appointed may have special grace and wisdom in considering the questions submitted to them for study. Pray that every one chosen to positions of responsibility may be God's man, and the one whom he would have lead his people. Pray that the plans laid for the promotion of the work may be broad and generous. Pray that peace and prosperity and a great outpouring of the Spirit of God may attend the meeting from beginning to end.

This meeting should bring a great spiritual uplift to the people of God. It should mark the beginning of a new era in this movement. By God's grace we believe this result may be achieved. Let us work for it, pray for it, and believe for it. F. M. W.