Resolutions: Keeping Promises Made at Conference Meetings
By H. A. St.John
So far as the accomplishment of good is concerned, with most of us, life is largely made up of resolutions made and resolutions broken. Certainly it is better not to vow than to vow and not pay. Perhaps all organized bodies at regular meetings pass resolutions, and not unfrequently these resolutions involve future action. Wants and failures are discovered, and resolutions are made to meet them. These resolutions are not thought of again, perhaps, until the secretary reads the minutes at the next regular meeting; then failures are discovered and resolutions made, to fail again. I have no thought that S. D. Adventists are free from this reprehensible custom. Reader, have you voted for resolutions not yet redeemed? If so, do you bear them distinctly in mind? Do you say that the body will carry them out? Ah! here is the deception. You must remember that the body is made up of individuals and individual responsibility must be felt, or the body surely fails. The business of our State Conferences, including resolutions, is published in the REVIEW, and it appears to me that we all should preserve these for frequent reference. How gloriously would the cause of the Lord prosper in almost every Conference, if excellent resolutions, unanimously adopted, were only remembered, and faithfully carried out. Now I propose, brethren, that we do better. Who says, Amen? H. A. St.John.