SPECIAL NOTICE by James White

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 15, 1880

SPECIAL NOTICE.

By James White

A DAY OF HUMILIATION, FASTING, AND PRAYER.

THE members of our General Conference Committee are each standing under a weight of care, responsibility, and toil that can be hardly expressed by words. Our dear fellow-laborers who have charge of foreign missions are almost overwhelmed with care and labor. Elder Andrews is apparently sinking in health, and several of our ministers in this country are suffering from failing health.

These, it is thought, are sufficient reasons why the 24th day of July, 1880, should be set apart as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer by all our people. They are requested to make the general cause and the feebleness and worn condition of many of our preachers the subjects of serious thought and earnest prayer on that day.

In view of the facts that Elder Haskell is pressed with care and labor on the Pacific Coast, that Elder Butler has had the toil and care of camp-meetings the present season, and that without rest he still presses the work in Iowa and Missouri, and is needed at all the remaining camp-meetings, and that the writer needs divine guidance and help while laboring at the heart of the work, and that many of our fellow-laborers are sinking in health under their arduous labors, there are sufficient reasons why we, as a people, should humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God, confess our departures from him, and return to him by confession, fasting, and earnest prayer.

The time is placed in the future sufficient for the special notice to reach all in distant lands. Responses to this call are asked from all our ministers.

In behalf of the Board, JAMES WHITE, Chairman Gen. Conf. Com.