An Earnest Appeal

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 27, 1872

An Earnest Appeal.

The following urgent call for help, recently received from Tennessee, is a specimen of the anxiety that exists in many parts of the country to listen to the truths we have to present. Who can read such appeals and not feel his heart stirred within him, and not feel either like giving himself to the work, or at least of beseeching with greater earnestness the Lord of the harvest to send forth more laborers into the field.

We would that efficient laborers could be had to respond immediately to this call, and go to the assistance of these friends. Perhaps something can be done for them the coming fall. Meanwhile we extend to them the hand of sympathy, and bid them, in the name of the Lord, to hold on till help shall come. The writer is J. A. Remley, agent of the L. and N. R. R., Davidson Co., near Nashville. He says:—

BRETHREN OF THE REVIEW AND HERALD. Many citizens here are inquiring of me, Why do you not have a preacher; we want to hear more of that doctrine? All I can say is that we have done all we could to get one. We have earnestly requested Eld. Lane to return and finish up the work he commenced here, and we have petitioned Conference with numerous signers, and some of them men of influence, to send us a minister.

And now in behalf of many citizens, I write to all whom it may concern, that we deeply feel an interest in the great Bible truths proclaimed here by Eld. E. B. Lane, and would, through your paper, earnestly inquire of the church at large, Is there no one to help us? Must we still grope in darkness, and be tossed about with every wind of doctrine?

We know the harvest is great and the laborers are few; and if there is none for us, we would plead for the prayers of the faithful, that we may not be numbered among those that are lost in sight of the holy city.

If there are any that can come, we will furnish money to bring them here and return, believing that much good will be done.