Our Future Plans

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 1, 1877

Oakland.

We are very happy to find ourselves again in beautiful Oakland, with improving health. Mrs. W. is very well, and labors with more power and the blessing of God than ever before. We meet the friends in this our former field of labor with great pleasure. The work in the Pacific Coast States and Territories is great and moves forward gloriously. Eld. Loughborough is on a tour to the North Pacific Mission. We think it would be well for him to remain there until near New Year's, and labor to establish the work there well before he shall leave that field. Truth triumphs in this field. God is with his people. Let the good work move forward. J. W.

Our Future Plans.

We now design to attend the New York quarterly meeting, Nov. 17 and 18, on our way to Michigan, then to visit Indiana and Kentucky. We hope at these places to see as large representations of our brethren and sisters as possible. We wish to set before our brethren some of the ways and means whereby they can co-operate in the missionary work and become more efficient in the same. Twenty times more can be accomplished by working systematically and to the point than otherwise.

If some of our preaching brethren could at once visit Alabama with a large tent, with the view of establishing a mission in that State, it should be done. And then if it should be desired, and arrangements can be made accordingly, we will also visit that State before returning from Kentucky. Till Nov. 10, any correspondence with reference to the matter can be addressed to me at South Lancaster, Mass.; after that, at Battle Creek, Mich.

An effort will be made to more fully unite all our tract societies under one general head, that there may be a uniformity of effort all over the field. Also to unite the efforts of all interested in the spread of the third angel's message, that when God speaks by his providence, bidding us move forward, there may be a vibration from one portion of the globe to another. If we have the truth, it is the most important message ever given to mortal man; and it is high time that we acted as though we believed it. The Lord is coming, and we should at once turn our attention and our interests toward a preparation for that event in a practical manner. S. N. Haskell.