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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 15, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 44, No. 13.

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Missionary to Europe.

By George I. Butler

ELD. J. N. ANDREWS will probably sail for Europe the 15th of this month. He leaves us to go abroad to look after the general interests of the cause in Europe. This sending of one of our leading men, as a missionary to the old world, is an event in the progress of the cause of great interest. We can but expect it will open the way for the progress of the work in all directions in Europe. We can but feel sad to say farewell to one who has so long been identified with the work in our midst. We shall greatly miss him, especially at our large gatherings. But we are consoled with the hope that his labors may be greatly blessed in Europe. May God go with him. Brethren, let our prayers follow him.
At our Maine camp-meeting, Bro. Andrews had special freedom from the Lord. I have not heard him speak with such clearness and freedom for years in the past. God is leading out the mind of his servant, and qualifying him for his work. On Sunday, we had a great concourse of people on the ground. They came from all directions with their teams, till the grounds were literally covered. Bro. Andrews spoke on the Sabbath question, and I think I never heard him equal that discourse upon that theme, which we all know he has handled ably so many times. The claims of God's great memorial were gloriously vindicated. Never did the contrast seem clearer between the day of God's rest and the day of heathen and popish origin than then.
We greatly rejoice that God is preparing his servant for the great work before him. There is no point of greater encouragement to me than the evidences that God is preparing the pioneers of the cause for the great work to be done. He is certainly blessing them by his spirit greatly, and uniting their hearts for the battle which lies before us. Doubtless we shall have to fight every inch of our way, for we contend with “principalities and powers,” and the “rulers of the darkness of this world;” but God is giving us tokens of his favor. May God go with his servant to Europe, and may he be a blessing to the cause there.
GEO. I. BUTLER.