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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 8, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 19.

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DAKOTA

By Daniel Nettleson

JAMESTOWN, N. D.—I was called here from the Minnesota Conference to assist in the institute and Bible school, which continued from January 5 to March 27. The institute occupied the first ten days. Nearly all the conference laborers were present. Some of the laborers met for the first time at this meeting.
The various branches of our work were considered, but special attention was given to the subject of organization,—what it has been to us, and what it is to us now. As we considered what God has said on this subject in his Word and the Testimonies, he gave us understanding and brought us to see eye to eye. There was special need of just such a meeting, and just such instruction as Brother Millman brought out in these lessons on organization. We learned that God is not pleased with haphazard work. God’s church is not to be like Babylon,—confusion,—but it is to be united and complete in him. “The Lord has provided his church with capabilities and blessings, that they may present to the world an image of his own sufficiency, and that his church may be complete in him, a continual representation of another, even the eternal world, of laws that are higher than earthly laws. His church is to be a temple built after the divine similitude, and the angelic Architect has brought his golden measuring rod from heaven, that every stone may be hewed and squared by the divine measurement, and polished to shine as an emblem of heaven, radiating in all directions the bright, clear beams of the Sun of Righteousness.” “The gift of the Holy Spirit, full, rich, and abundant, is to his church as an encompassing wall of fire, which the powers of hell shall not prevail against.” Thank the Lord! I am glad the Lord “comes personally by his Spirit into the midst of his church.”
The Lord has spoken good concerning Israel. God specially blessed us in the school as we studied present truth. “There are many precious truths contained in the word of God, but it is present truth that the flock needs now. Such subjects as the sanctuary, in connection with the twenty-three hundred days, the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus are perfectly calculated to explain the past Advent movement, and show what our present position is, establish the faith of the doubting, and give certainty to the glorious future. These, I have frequently seen, were the principal subjects on which the messengers should dwell.” And these are the principal subjects on which we did dwell; and as we studied them, the Lord gave us his Holy Spirit, and we were all taught of God. We took his yoke, and learned of him; and have proved that his yoke is easy, and his burden is light. DANIEL NETTLESON.