THE CAUSE by John Norton Loughborough

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 23, 1861

THE CAUSE.

By John Norton Loughborough

BRO. WHITE : I have read with much interest your article in Review No. 6, on the state of the cause, and would say I have not been without feeling on this subject, and have felt that there was a lack somewhere.

I know I want a more entire consecration to the work of God. I want to feel that Israel's God is with me as I go out to battle. I would say, I am in favor of a day of fasting and prayer, in which we may implore the Lord to revive us all, and to plead with the Lord to go out with his servants to battle. I fear we all neglect too much the closet devotions, and that the church are inclined to trust more to their preachers than in the mighty power of God. May the Lord arouse us all to a sense of our helplessness without him. J. N. Loughborough.

Rockton, Ills. July 15, 1861.