SABBATH IN BATTLE CREEK.
By C. W. S.
While cheering reports come to us from all parts of the field, telling of the progress of the cause and of the way God is preparing openings for the reception of his word, and blessing his servants who faithfully do his work, we want to tell what the Lord is doing in Battle Creek. We are having excellent Sabbath meetings. Two weeks ago last Sabbath, Bro. White preached two sermons. He had passed a restless night, and the morning found him hardly able to be up. After presenting his case to the Lord he felt impressed to go to meeting and try to speak to the people. He selected the eighteenth chapter of Matthew as his subject. The chapter is a beautiful discourse in itself; but the wonderful connection of its different parts and the touching and instructive lessons to be learned from it were so clearly brought out by the speaker that the words of the Master seemed to arrange themselves in living sentences of light before our eyes. We never saw Bro. White more free. The Lord blessed him in speaking; and when he had finished his discourse in the afternoon, he said that he had been improving in physical strength all day. Much has been done in planning and executing improvements at the College, in regulating the affairs of the Health Institute so that they present a more promising phase than ever before, and in setting things in order in the church; and the heft of this labor has rested upon Bro. White. Sister White is keeping all hands busy with her pen, and Bro. White is hard at work several hours each day in arranging the manuscript for publication in a book, and at the same time selecting portions of it to be printed in several pamphlets. The presses are kept busy. Everybody here has enough to do, and God blesses in doing his work. He sustains his servants in their arduous labors wonderfully. Last Sabbath, Nov. 4, Bro. White preached upon baptism and the necessity of walking in newness of life, putting on those qualities without which none can be a child of God. The Lord gave great freedom; and as the speaker closed his discourse, the blessing of God rested upon him with great power. The place seemed sacred, and we were loth to leave the house as the assembly dispersed. The Lord is good, and in doing his will there is joy. If it is pleasant to work hard in his cause, what will it be to rest in his kingdom?