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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 11, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 45.

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Special Appointment

By C. McReynolds

ANCIENTLY, when distress was upon God's people, when they were encompassed by enemies, when some great work was to be accomplished, they were called to a season of earnest prayer, together seeking the Lord for a demonstration of his power for the accomplishment of the desired end.
There never was a time when we felt greater anxiety to see a work accomplished than we now feel to see the work with “Christ’s Object Lessons” finished. The Lord is testing his people through this movement. Our instruction is, “Let every member in every family in every church” take hold of this work. Since he is testing each one, it is a matter of the most vital importance that we see to it that we individually stand the test. If we have not faith to take hold of this work, then surely we need to seek the Lord to give us faith; if we have not courage, he will give us courage if we go to him for it; and he has promised to give wisdom liberally to all who ask in faith.
In studying this matter and seeking the Lord concerning it, we have thought best to call the whole denomination throughout the Kansas Conference, to a special season of prayer, Sabbath, November 15. I have written to all the church elders in the State, and trust that this will reach all our people; and while in some places the members will have secured orders for their quota of the books before this time, yet the necessity of pushing the work forward to make up the deficiency for those who are absent from the churches, will justify this earnest effort on the part of every one. Then let the week following be the time when every Sabbath keeper in the State who has not sold his quota of the books, shall arise and accomplish this thing. Do not wait until the last days of the week, but begin Monday morning, or even Sunday, and do not stop until the work is done. Now is the time to take orders for holiday books; and there will never be a more favorable time than just now to accomplish this work.
C. McREYNOLDS.