The Meetings in Battle Creek.
By James White
The lectures of the Biblical Institute course are proving deeply interesting and profitable to a class of about 150. From many cares and burdens of the cause borne for weeks and months past, Bro. White has not been able to take as active a part as all his friends hoped he would be. For a beginning, as they have continued yet but a few days, they present a prospect of abundant success. Bro. Smith has given several lectures on the subject of immortality to great acceptance. The meetings on the Sabbath were of special interest. After a social meeting, wherein many spirited testimonies were given, Bro. White, in the forenoon, gave a discourse from a large painted chart of the “Way of Life,” showing the harmony of the two Testaments, and pointing out the presence of Christ in all the Bible, and that his work is not confined to the present dispensation. Though afflicted with a severe cold and cough, he was enabled to rise above his infirmities and to speak with earnestness and freedom. The subject is vast, and there seemed to be but one desire, that he may soon have opportunity to extend his remarks on the same subject. In the afternoon, sister White made one of her most powerful appeals, directed especially to the ministers and those who expect to engage in the ministry, but applicable to all. At the close, there was a call made to come forward for prayers, but it was in vain to carry out the design of giving place to those who desired to seek a closer walk with God. The whole house was moved. It was a solemn time. Most of the ministers felt, as they never felt before, the sacredness and the magnitude of the work, and the necessity of purity of heart and life to engage in this work, and to be prepared to stand before the Judge. We feel more and more impressed with the importance of this time and of this course of lectures, and fully believe that the servants of God will go forth from these meetings with renewed zeal and courage, and that they will be much better prepared to fulfill the responsible duties of their office than they ever were before. It is the intention to continue to make it a season of revival interest to the close.