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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 8, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 23, No. 15.

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The Cause.

By Editor

We are receiving most cheering news from the Eastern Mission, and are glad to learn that Eld. Loughborough feels that the East is his field of labor at present. His recent tour with Bro. Pierce has been most successful and cheering. May God speed on the work of bringing up the friends of the cause in the East into working order. Bro. Cornell has preached to crowds at Peacedale and Block Island, R. I., and a goodly number are keeping God's Sabbath.
But another favorable symptom of progress is the spirit of opposition that is awakening in the East. Several seem aroused to do what they can to stop the work, and these valiant(!) men generally make their first attack on the views of Mrs. W. The people will certainly receive the impression that these views are of importance to be thus called into notice, and they will read them, and will hear the writer of them speak, if they can have an opportunity. This is all working finely. The Herald of Life and Millennial Harbinger are doing a capital advertising business for us. May God deliver the cause from that dead calm which has so long held it in the East. Let the winds blow, it makes but little difference from what point, and the ship will move onward.
We never cherished the idea that the cause would revive in the East without stirring the elements of opposition. We feared most a spirit of anti-organization, and fanaticism among a class of professed friends of the Sabbath cause. But we are happy to learn that this is dying out, and that there is a reviving among that class of scattered and almost bewildered Sabbath-keepers. May God bless them and give them confidence in the work which is moving along prosperously in the providence of God. Let Sabbath-keepers stand in union, and act in the cause of truth as God has given judgment and ability, and all the opposition from without will serve to advance the cause. We repeat it again, organization is the hope of the cause in the East.
Cheering news comes in also from the West. We are happily disappointed at the present state of unity and activity in the cause, East and West. Under God, brethren, we may accomplish great good if we work unitedly and vigorously. Now is the time to work, and may God help us.