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TO BRETHREN IN MICHIGAN

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 27, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 13.

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TO BRETHREN IN MICHIGAN.

By Michigan Conference Committee

ELDERS of churches and leaders of companies of Sabbath-keepers in Michigan, we wish to call your attention to Eld. Canright’s articles on quarterly meetings, in REVIEW Nos. 10 and 11. As our quarterly meetings for the last two quarters have been broken up by other meetings, we hope you will let nothing hinder you from holding your church quarterly meeting at the proper time,—the first Sabbath and Sunday in April. These are important meetings, and should not be neglected. If they are attended to according to the plan suggested by the General Conference Committee, they enable us to learn the standing of every member, and then the church can help such as need help, if there are any such.
In the past, members have gone away from the church, and have remained away for years without reporting, and the church has known nothing of them. This will be prevented, if the church quarterly meetings are properly attended to. Difficulties have remained unsettled, and have brought disgrace upon the church, and discouragement upon many that might have been helped had the discipline now suggested been carried out. Brethren, we hope you will attend to these meetings promptly, and we think good will result; for to our mind the plan proposed is only carrying out proper discipline. There should be discipline and order in the army of Christ, as well as in the army of our country.
And then there are the ordinances of the Lord’s house. Are they meaningless? or does the Lord want his people to observe them? We think he wants his people to observe them; for he says, “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” John 13:17. Again, “As often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord’s death till he come.” 1 Cor. 11:26. And many more scriptures might be brought to show our duty on this point.
We wish leaders of companies that have not an ordained elder to let us know in time, and as far as possible help will be furnished for the occasion.
MICHIGAN CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.