Conference Department

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 19, 1870

Conference Department.

Exhorting one another, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25.

This Department is designed to fill the same place in the paper that the Conference of Social Meeting does in the worship of God. Speak often one to another to comfort, edify and aid each other in the way of holiness and true Christian experience.

SISTER C. M. LASHIER writes from Todd Co., Minn.: I am still trying to be an overcomer, that I may receive the overcomer's reward. Although my pathway seems dark many times, as cares, sorrows and afflictions thicken around me, as one loved one after another is called to lie down in death, which brings sadness and depression, still my trust is in Him who has said, Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Sweet promise for the weary, careworn pilgrim. It has been through great affliction that I have learned patience and submission. I can truly say with the psalmist, It is good for me that I have been afflicted. We have of late been called to pass through affliction. Death has severed a tender chord and taken one of our number; but I trust we sorrow not as those who have no hope. To know that our Saviour is soon coming to break the fetters of the tomb, and call forth our loved ones to life and immortality, is our comfort and consolation.

“Though dark my path, and sad my lot, Let me be still and murmur not, And breathe the prayer divinely taught, Thy will, thy will, my God be done.

“What though in lonely grief I sigh, For friends beloved no longer nigh, Submission still would I reply, Thy will, thy will, my God, be done.”