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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 4.

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NEEDED IN ILLINOIS.

By G. W. Colcord

1. As we have employed more than a dozen laborers in our Conference this year, we shall need every cent of S. B. which our friends truly owe to the treasury of the Lord; and therefore, in behalf of the cause of God in our State, and of our poor, hard-laboring brethren in the field, I do hereby beseech all of our church-members, and every one of our scattered brethren and sisters, to be strictly true to God in this matter. Send your tithes to J. F. Trovillo, Aledo, Mercer Co., Ill. I understand whereof I affirm when I say, Your ministers greatly need all that we, at present, can furnish them. Remember, every debt must be paid either in time or eternity. Some are doing nobly; let all others come up to the help of the Lord.
2. Let all our friends remember the T. and M. society. Here are needs to be supplied. Every district should cancel its debt this year; then we should finish raising our twelve-hundred-dollar fund. If every adult Sabbath-keeper in Illinois would be an active worker in the tract society, we might readily accomplish the foregoing. I request every officer and member to try to persuade all to unite with us in missionary work. As there are to be no starless crowns of rejoicing, we must accept the rule, Save others, if thou wouldst thyself be saved!
3. Lastly, we greatly need more real laborers—burden-bearers—who will work in any place which may be assigned to them, and who, if they are not at first prepared for the work, will fit themselves for it. Give us such ministers as this,—men who will trust in God and go forth to gain a living experience in the field where human souls are gathered,—give us such persons in the tract work, in the Sabbath-school association, and in the temperance reform, and what may not our Conference accomplish, with God’s blessing, in the closing work of the “remnant”? May the Lord save us from religious laziness! and may we enjoy the energetic life of those for whom rest is prepared in the “sweet by-and-by.”
G. W. COLCORD.