Progress of the Cause by James White

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 23, 1877

Progress of the Cause.

By James White

GOD is graciously at work among his people. Success is attending all our efforts. We are cheered with the good news that comes over from the Pacific coast by private letters and by the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. There are seven men in the State of California alone giving their whole time to the ministry. Three tent companies are active in California, and one in Oregon.

And on the Atlantic, only nineteen miles from old Boston, Elder Canright has the largest interest he has ever witnessed. The number of conversions given in the Progress Department of this week are one hundred and thirty-six. We congratulate the Empire State on her cheering prosperity since Elder Canright pitched his tent at Rome thirteen months since. And most of the other Conferences are showing a like prosperity. How unspeakably good to feel, and to know, that the God of our fathers is with us.

Calls for ministerial help come in from all quarters. Where we have two hundred men in the field, we need a thousand. Where we have fifty young men at our College who have the ministry in view, we should have three hundred. There is no time to be lost. Those who think of coming next year, should by all means come this year. Those who think of coming at the winter term, should come immediately at the fall term.

Again, Biblical Institutes should be held in all our Conferences. The one held in Oakland, Cal., last spring doubled the ministerial labor of the State the present year. In God we must stand, and labor, and battle till the work shall be finished.—J. W., in Review and Herald.