IOWA STATE QUARTERLY MEETING by George I. Butler

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 8, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 2

IOWA STATE QUARTERLY MEETING.

By George I. Butler

This meeting is appointed at State Center, Iowa, Jan. 24, 25. We want to make it a meeting of great importance to the cause in this State. We need a great reviving in Iowa. If we were all awake and in dead earnest, as we should be, we might accomplish ten times as much as we are now doing. Depressing influences have been at work in the past, which have decreased our spirituality. Wrong tendencies have had their influence to injure the work. We must realize our danger, and arouse to a sense of the importance of these precious closing moments of probation.

We want to see a very large turnout at this meeting. We want all our directors and T. and M. officers and workers to be present if possible. Business matters of importance require attention; and we want a spiritual reviving in our Conference.

We would like to see all our ministers present who can consistently leave their fields of labor. Our condition and the wants of the cause demand that this meeting be one of special interest; and this it cannot be unless many of our people attend, with an earnest desire to take hold anew and press forward in the work. We must humble our hearts and seek the Lord in earnest, or the cause in our State will be in a deplorable condition. Shall we not at this meeting have a large rally of our people to seek the Lord for a general revival of religion in our State?

GEO. I. BUTLER, Pres. Iowa T. and M. Society.