A Blessed Refreshing at Fairview
By Jesse Dorcas
Bro. White: I have just returned from Fairview, where we had the largest gathering of Sabbath-keepers that I ever had the pleasure of seeing together in this State, and probably any other. Nine churches were represented at this conference. A more general melting into tenderness I never witnessed. In short, we had a blessed refreshing from the presence of the Lord. Dear brother, permit me to say to the saints scattered abroad, that I have taken fresh courage, and have started anew for the kingdom. Through trials, temptations, and sins, I was almost overcome, and had strong fears that I should never enter into that heavenly rest. But being permitted to read an admonition from the Lord through our beloved sister White to Bro. Osborn, my hard heart was melted. O! those words of the compassionate Saviour! “Come just as you are, wait not to become better. Come in all your unworthiness and sins. Return unto the Lord, and he will return unto you!” “It is enough! I yield, I yield,
I can hold out no more;
I sink by dying love compelled,
And own the conqueror!”
These are my feelings now, and may they ever be.
Yours in love.
Jesse Dorcas.