Kankakee, Ill by Wilson Pottenger

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 30, 1876

Kankakee, Ill.

By Wilson Pottenger

QUARTERLY meeting will be held in the City Hall, in Kankakee City, Dec. 29, 30, and 31 (Thursday evening, Sabbath, and first-day); and in connection therewith the T. and M. Society will hold a meeting.

We hope the brethren and sisters will make a general rally, especially the “lone ones.” My dear brethren, this meeting is for you, and the benefits to be derived from it will depend on what you make it. Come, then, not to visit, to see and be seen, but to serve God. Come with your hearts set upon the love of Jesus, who has done so much for you. Let no ordinary circumstance keep you away. Let us make it a meeting long to be remembered.

From my travels among you, I know you need the genial influence of the Spirit of God shed abroad in your hearts, to stimulate you to more earnest work. If we have been favored with the truth of divine revelation, as we profess we have, a terrible responsibility rests upon us in the use of the time and means God has given us so liberally. “The third angel’s message” must be given to the world, and if we prove ourselves recreant to the trust God has given us, he will take from us that which we have, and give to another people whom he will raise up.

I have the promise of Bro. R. F. Andrews, that either G. W. Colcord, or himself, or both, will be with us on the occasion.

WILSON POTTENGER, Director.