TO OUR BRETHREN IN NEW ENGLAND.
By D. A. Robinson
The first Sabbath and first-day of this month is the time for our church quarterly meetings. I hope every church or company in this Conference will carry out the design of these meetings just as far as possible. Some churches and companies cannot have the ordinances, because they have no ordained officers, but all can do something. For a statement of the duties to be performed, see the article in this number headed, “Church Quarterly Meetings.” Dear brethren in New England, be prompt in making your financial reports. “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,” “and prove me now herewith.” Let the beginning of 1879 mark the period when we shall commence to prove the Lord. How many will do this? Who dares to venture out on this promise? I know some will, but God grant that there may be a general move all along the line. The Lord says, “prove me, . . . if I will not pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” Will the Lord do as he has said? Pardon me for raising the question, but there are some of us who do not act as though we believed he would. D. A. ROBINSON.