NEW YEAR'S | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 19, 1878

NEW YEAR'S.

HUMILIATION, FASTING, CONFESSION OF SINS, AND PRAYER.

WE, the committee of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, appoint Jan. 1, 1879, as a day of humiliation, confession of sins, fasting, and prayer. We have abundant cause as a people to humble ourselves before God in view of his manifest forbearance, love, and great goodness toward us.

Notwithstanding our unfaithfulness, he has, for his truth's sake, in a good degree prospered our institutions, and also our more general work in the advancement and growth of the cause. While we have cause for devout gratitude that our Lord still loves us and sends from Heaven warning and rebukes, we see cause for confession of our sins before him, humiliation, and prayer for pardon for the past and grace to help in time to come. “The Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.” Isa. 59:1, 2. Seventh-day Adventists throughout the length and breadth of the land are requested to assemble at their usual places of worship, Jan. 1, 1879, at 10:30 A. M., for the special worship of God. At 1:30 of that day let there be a business meeting.

One of the duties of that meeting will be the consideration of heavy debts upon the houses of worship at both Oakland, Cal., and Battle Creek, Mich., and the plans to lift them set forth in the Supplement which accompanies this week's issue of the REVIEW. May God look down upon our efforts to return to him, and may his Spirit impress all with a deep sense of their duty to act their part in lifting the debts from these two houses of worship, and thus “Hold the Fort.”

GEN. CONF. COM.