In Washington

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 23, 1909

THE week of prayer, just closed as we go to press, was a very blessed experience in Washington. There are eight churches and companies, and one or two groups, in the District of Columbia Conference territory, and, so far as we have heard, it has been a time of rich blessing and victory in all. The keynote has seemed to be the definite surrender to service and the peace and rest of cleansing from sin within while battling with trial and temptation without. Never have we known the closer searching of the Holy Spirit to lay bare specific hindrances and sins, in order that the King's highway may be cleared. In our Review Office, as all the workers have come together to seek for definite victory and for the experience that is especially needed where many are crowded together in busy strenuous work-rooms, the Lord has so blessed that we praise and magnify his name. The Foreign Mission Seminary and Sanitarium church bear like testimony. We expect to hear of similar experiences wherever the week has been observed. The week of prayer is more than a merely formal appointment. It is of the Lord, and on such occasions the waters are troubled for the special healing of the soul. Now let it be the entrance upon a year of more earnest prayer and service. The year 1910 must have many trials and opportunities awaiting us. God will help us.