p. 108 | TO THE BRETHREN IN NEW ENGLAND

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 4, 1877

TO THE BRETHREN IN NEW ENGLAND.

By Stephen Nelson Haskell

It will be seen by this week's REVIEW that the annual meeting of the N. E. Tract Society will be held Oct. 20-22. The principal reason for appointing it at So. Lancaster was that this is the most central point for a general attendance. This meeting will be one of unusual importance. Matters of vital interest to the cause in New England will be considered. Not only is it the time for the election of officers for the Tract Society for the coming year, but important questions will come up for consideration. The prosperity of the cause in this Conference the present season is without a parallel in the history of our Conference. What shall be done to co-operate with the providence of God in this respect?

One company in Newburyport and one in Westmoreland have been raised up, besides the work in Danvers, which has extended to all the adjoining cities, towns, and villages. Nearly one hundred souls have embraced the truth in this vicinity, and there are openings for courses of lectures in many of these places. There has been no such interest in the cause of present truth in New England in the history of this work. A number equal to more than one-third the entire membership of the Conference have embraced the truth the present season. The cause is rising everywhere, and God has visited us in an especial manner.

Then our tract and missionary work has accomplished more and can show more fruits this present season than ever before in the same period of time. We are about to enter the fall campaign for this branch of our work. There will be a full supply of the almanac for 1878. Canvassers for the HEALTH REFORMER will start out from this meeting. They want to go out right, imbued with the Spirit of God. Two meeting-houses are to be built immediately. Then what about a Biblical Institute? Shall we have one in New England this winter, and give young men and women the privilege of that drill which will be the means of preparing them to go out to labor for God in the broad harvest field? Are we ready with our means, prayers, and influence to co-operate in every respect with the opening providence of God?

We want to see all our scattered brethren and sisters at this meeting, all the old hands, in fact, every one interested in the prosperity of the cause in this Conference. A tent will be pitched sufficiently large to accommodate all who may come. Should it be cold, stoves will be provided so that it will be comfortable in the tent. Bring bed quilts and comfortables and come one, and come all. Eld. Canright will attend the meeting. S. N. Haskell.