Our Machinery | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 24, 1871

Our Machinery.

Our people are well organized. Our Church, State Conference, General Conference, Systematic Benevolence, and Publishing, organizations, can hardly be improved. To say the least, the machinery works well. There is no real want of means to sustain the cause of present truth. Our people are a very liberal and faithful people in point of means. The ministry is fully supported. Missionaries are well sustained, and there is a readiness to back up with their means all good enterprises for the advancement of the cause. Two years since, the General Conference was in debt three thousand dollars. At our next General Conference, there will be something in the treasury, after all missionaries shall be paid.

This faithfulness on the part of our very dear people is hardly prized by our ministers. Besides being fully sustained in their present work, not a few of them have been helped by our people to the very homes occupied by their families. In consequence of the liberality of our people some of them are worth to-day twice what they would have been had they never entered the ministry.

These undisputed facts call for deepest gratitude on the part of our ministers, and should lead them to cheerfully consecrate their powers to the service of God.