p. 60 | THE CAUSE by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 22, 1862

THE CAUSE.

By Editor

Good tidings from different portions of the field in regard to the prosperity of the cause, are most cheerful. A good work is being accomplished where several of our Tent companies are laboring. And this is not all—organization is doing a great work for our people. It is concentrating our forces upon the great objects of the message; viz., the work of preparation for each to fill his proper place in the church, and to extend the light of truth to others. Where the work of organization is taken hold of in earnest, the cause is going ahead; where it is not, the cause is crumbling. With pleasure we can report a growing prosperity in Michigan. It has seemed to us that God is greatly blessing the brethren in this State for cheerfully parting with several of their most efficient preachers to labor in other States. If the brethren in the States where they labor prize their efforts as they should, they too may share a great blessing.

Now is the time to work. Our national troubles bear a dark aspect. Trying times are coming. We repeat it—Now is the time to work. The future cannot be as favorable in many respects. Those who have slighted instruction, and are now in confusion, had better get into working order as soon as possible. The shaking time has come, and we rejoice to see it. The furnace is being heated which will purify the gold, and consume the dross.