KENTUCKY CONFERENCE by Mary L. Williams

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 8, 1876

KENTUCKY CONFERENCE.

By Mary L. Williams

Our first Conference, dear brethren, is now an event of the past. We have had set before us duties applicable to our times. Shall we come up to the help of the Lord and show by our faithfulness that we do believe what we profess—that we as a people have committed to us the work of sounding the last message that will ever be given to this old world? Oh, what a sacred work! Do we believe that God has called on us to give our money and time to send the news that Christ is soon coming again? Do we believe that he has a special work for his people to do before he comes, that they may be ready for him? If so, we had better do it and quickly too.

We learn by reading the history of the past that when about to visit the world with judgments, God has in every case sent his servants to proclaim them to the inhabitants of the earth, with a promise that all who heeded that special message should be saved from the threatened doom. God had Noah at work one hundred and twenty years building the ark and preaching. If Noah had waited to do various things before he commenced building, the ark would not have been ready, and he and his family would have perished. Faithful Noah had it all ready, and he and his family were in seven days, waiting for the flood of waters to come.

As probation is about to close, we had better be about our work. Many of us have not money to give. We can work other ways. We can pray and hand out tracts.

“One work the Lord has left us, To take up day by day; While others bear the burden, He bids us for them pray.”

MARY L. WILLIAMS.

Colesburgh, Ky., May 28.