NOTE TO THE MISSOURI CONFERENCE.
By J. H. Rogers
A number of my friends in this Conference are inquiring why I have been so long silent, and why I am not engaged in the work of the ministry. I wish to say, I am at home laboring with my hands, but not because I have lost my interest in the cause. I am trying to shape my temporal matters so as to be free again to engage where duty may direct; for to my mind the time for working in the cause of the Lord under the third angel’s message is nearly closed up, and what we can do should be done soon. The time of trouble is undoubtedly in the near future, and seeing the leadings of God’s providence going out in every direction, the many calls from those hungering and thirsting for the truth, stirs my very soul, and should move us all to do all we can in “bringing in the golden sheaves” to the garner of the Lord. Do we realize that the perils of the last days are fast thickening around us? May God help us all to arouse, to be zealous, and to repent.