BATTLE CREEK CONFERENCE.
By Editor
OUR brethren may be expecting in this week's paper some notice of the General Conference just convened in this place. But having been occupied with the business matters of the Conference and the brethren, till the present date (Tuesday, Oct. 2) which is one day later than this paper is usually put to press, only a few brief remarks can here be given. We were gratified to see quite a full representation of preachers from different parts. Among these were Brn. M. Hull and M. E. Cornell from Iowa, Wm. S. Ingraham from Wis., Joseph Bates, J. H. Waggoner, James White, J. N. Loughborough, J. B. Frisbie, R. J. Lawrence and J. L. Edgar, from Mich., T. J. Butler and G. W. Holt, from Ohio, E. A. Poole, from N. Y., and also J. N. Andrews and C. W. Sperry, from their labors in that State the past summer. Many brethren met for the first time at this meeting, whose cordial salutations and beaming countenances bespoke their joy at meeting, their union of heart and their love for the truth. As the hour arrived for religious exercises at the commencement of the Sabbath, the house was densely filled with the brethren and sisters who had come up from different States to this happy gathering to wait upon the Lord and receive his promises. An instructive and stirring discourse was given by Bro. Hull from Titus ii, 11-14. In the social meeting from 9 o'clock to half-past 10, the following morning, the time was well filled up with many short and spirited testimonies, from hearts warm in the truth and beating high with hope of immortality. Preaching followed by Bro. White from Phil. ii, 5, and context, being a very timely discourse on the relation that brethren sustain towards each other, and the feelings and union that should exist among them. It was forcibly set home to the hearts and consciences of those present, and we trust will be lived out by them as they go to their respective homes. Another short and interesting season of conference meeting was enjoyed previous to a discourse in the afternoon of the Sabbath from Bro. Sperry, from Zeph. ii, 1-3, in which he portrayed the scattering that has been accomplished among the people of God, and showed that now the time has come for the gathering of the remnant. There was further preaching on first-day forenoon by Bro. Hull, and in the afternoon by Bro. Ingraham which completed the religious exercises of the Conference. That interesting feature of such gatherings as this, namely, the prayer and conference meetings, was cut short by the business meetings which it was thought necessary to hold before the brethren from a distance might be obliged to leave. The time of the Conference, therefore, with the exception of the exercises already mentioned, was occupied in deliberating upon those important questions mentioned in the notice of Conference in REVIEW No. 17, such as the proper manner of holding church property, the wants of the Office of publication, &c., and in adopting such measures as would enable us to act more efficiently in time to come, in the promulgation of the truth we love. The report of the business proceedings will be given, providence permitting, next week.