DISTRICT 5 by R. M. KILGORE.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 3, 1900

DISTRICT 5.

By R. M. KILGORE.

From Canon City I went to Boulder and Ft. Collins, Colo. Brother Rees was with me at the latter place, where we held one meeting with the church. At the Boulder Sanitarium I found a greater degree of courage manifested than at my last visit, which was soon after the fire. Now a better and larger building covers the ground. It is filled with new and improved machinery, in both the bakery and the laundry. The present condition gives assurance that, with these new facilities, a better class of goods will be manufactured, and the demand for health foods will be more fully supplied.

At the meeting at Keene, Tex., there was a good representation from the surrounding churches. Nearly all the workers from the Texas Conference, and delegates from the Oklahoma and Arkansas Conferences were present, making a large company. The church at Keene devoted their time and attention to the meetings, and the school closed its work so that teachers and students might receive the benefits of this season of Bible instruction. Elder Haskell and his wife each occupied two hours daily. His lessons on the three angels' messages were presented

with power and freedom. All were quickened into new life, faith in the word of God was revived, and hope and courage sprang up anew. The Bible readings given by Sister Haskell on the sanctuary were appreciated by all who heard them. New desires were awakened to know more of God's word. A careful study of the Bible is imperative if we shall obtain that preparation and experience which will enable us to stand amid the trying scenes just before the people of God.

Elder Irwin was present but two days, being called to Battle Creek on important business. The reading of the recent Special Testimonies, which he was presenting, was continued daily. The instruction, warnings, and words of counsel given in these readings were welcomed by all; and we believe that solemn, lasting impressions were made. Throughout it was a profitable meeting, and all returned to their fields or homes encouraged, strengthened, and settled in the fundamental principles of the Third Angel's Message.

On returning to Keene I found a new two-story frame addition to the dormitory, the lower story being used as a kitchen, and also affording an enlarged dining-room; while in the upper story are rooms sufficient to accommodate eight more students. They now have a full house of young men and women in training for work in the cause of God.

The spring councils of the Conference Committee and academy and sanitarium boards were held, and plans for the future were laid. At the close of the meeting Sunday night, Brethren August Kunze and H. E. Giddings were set apart to the ministry by the laying on of hands, Elder H. Shultz offering the prayer, and Elder Haskell giving the charge.

On the way to the Kansas City Institute, Elder Haskell and his wife and I stopped two days at Springdale, Ark., where we labored night and day for the church. It was a timely visit. Some of its members had taken positions contrary to the body, and were zealous in advocating them. The instruction given by the servants of God quieted the threatening storm, and calmed the minds of most of those affected. The open, bitter war that is being waged against those whom God has used in presenting the Third Angel's Message, in righteousness by faith, and the bold, defiant opposition to this saving message which they have borne, should cause alarm and a just, righteous indignation to arise in every mind that is loyal to God, against any and every erroneous view advocated by those posing as expositors of Bible lore. No one need be afraid of those prophets whose utterances have failed in their fulfillment, though their anathemas may be declared against those who would dare to reject their message. When accusation, railing, and separation are the stock in trade of those who “arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them,” it is time for those who love the Lord to close their ears against such sophistries.

We would call the attention of our brethren everywhere to the timely warning given in our good REVIEW AND HERALD of Feb. 6, 1900, against the little sheet entitled Gospel Review, published at Petoskey, Mich. We are astonished that anyone having a knowledge of the Third Angel's Message should be troubled, or led to doubt for a moment that God is leading this people, by the wild vagaries of that paper.

R. M. KILGORE.