Recollections of a Pioneer by WASHINGTON MORSE

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 15, 1907

Recollections of a Pioneer

By WASHINGTON MORSE

PETERSBORO, ONTARIO. Editors of the REVIEW AND HERALD, Washington, D. C.

DEAR BRETHREN: The REVIEW AND HERALD of April 25 contains, under the heading “Organization, No. 13,” a report of the doings of Seventh-day Adventists under date of May 20, 1863. I am a living witness of what occurred at that meeting, and I can say to the readers of the REVIEW, Think of everything good that has been written of every previous meeting, and apply it to this. Perhaps no previous meeting was characterized by such unity of feeling and harmony of sentiment. There was not a dissenting voice, and we may reasonably doubt if there was even a dissenting thought. Such union on every point affords the strongest grounds of hope for immediate advancement of the cause.

We must know, from forty-four years of experience, that God was pleased with such steps as were taken at this 1863 General Conference. That meeting was like the mustard seed then, but is it not now become a tree of many branches? Soon our hope will be consummated; yes, my dear brethren, we are nearing home, sweet home. He that overcometh will be clothed with white raiment, and have his sins blotted out. Rev. 3:5.

WASHINGTON MORSE.