A Glorious Conference Meeting
By Martin V. Cole
Brethren and Sisters: Although I do not have the privilege of meeting on the Sabbath as some of you do, yet I verily believe that I can and do enjoy the privilege of meeting God in secret. And I also have met with the church in Wright at conference meetings. The first was in Feb. last, where we enjoyed a very good meeting, and the last (for there has only been two that I know of) commenced April 30th, where we had a glorious meeting. It was the first time that I ever had the privilege of taking part in that spirit-humbling and pride-annihilating ordinance, even the washing of feet. There it seemed that every evil desire and bad wish was cleansed from each heart, and nothing but pure love abounded. It seemed that every one could conscientiously say, I love my neighbor as myself, and I will do good unto every one, especially unto the household of faith. It seems to me that I am like a plant removed from its native soil, since I returned from that meeting, for as the plant droops beneath the scorching rays of the sun, so my spirit faints to see people so much interested in heaping together treasures for this world, and at the same time blaspheming the name of God. But as the exotic will revive when it gets firmly rooted in the earth, so I hope to overcome the world as I grow in grace. I trust that there will yet be a messenger here to preach the word, and to give encouragement to four or five Sabbath-keepers that live in the town of Olive, seven or eight miles from this place. They have been trying to serve the Lord more than a year, and have had their faith tried in almost every way, and had no help in the time except through the Review. MARTIN V. COLE.
Allendale, Mich.