Encouraging by Dudley Marvin Canright

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Woodland, Cal. · Oct 22, 1874

Encouraging.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

We feel that, in the results of our good camp meeting, God has given us another evidence of the power of this message and the Lord’s willingness to bless his people when they seek him earnestly. It gave us undeniable evidence that the cause on this coast is fast increasing in strength and influence. The permanent location of the SIGNS and a publishing office here marks a new era in the cause which will rejoice every believer. But the work here is now only fairly started. What a field is before us. The deep feeling of my soul is that I will put all my strength of body and mind into this work with more energy and perseverance than ever before. For this I will live and for this I will work. The way is now prepared for every brother and sister to join in the work, and we expect they will do it.

D. M. CANRIGHT.

To embrace the whole creation with love sounds beautifully, but we must begin with the nearest. And he who cannot love that deeply, intensely, entirely, how should he be able to love that which is remote, and which throws but feeble rays upon him from a foreign star? How should he be able to love it with any feeling which deserves the name of love? The greatest cosmopolites are generally the neediest beggars, and they who embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part, love nothing but their narrow self.

A MOMENT’S effort in controlling passion may often prevent days of sorrow.