A GOOD MOVE | AdventAI

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, March 4, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 10

A GOOD MOVE.

It was the privilege of the Battle Creek church to enjoy two very interesting and important meetings Sabbath, Feb. 28. Bro. White spoke in the forenoon on Ps. 119:9, showing the important place the law of God occupies in the development of a Christian character, and also the office of the Holy Spirit in connection with this work, not only to comfort and satisfy, but to reprove for sin, and bring to mind those failures in our past life and defects in our character which need to be remedied. At the close of the discourse, six came forward for prayers.

In the afternoon a social meeting was held, in which many encouraging testimonies were given, exhibiting much feeling, and furnishing ground for hope of spiritual progress on the part of those who spoke.

The work was then taken up where it closed in the forenoon, and an invitation was given for those to come forward who wished to start in the Christian life, or felt special need of recovering from a backslidden condition. To this there was a very prompt and general response. Between seventy-five and one hundred persons came forward to the front seats, quite a good number of these making their first public start in the service of God.

An opportunity being given for those who had come forward to express their feelings, they pressed in so earnestly with their testimonies that it was impossible to close the meeting until nearly the close of the Sabbath, it having continued three full hours. About fifty of those who had come forward availed themselves of the privilege of bearing testimony in this manner. A good revival spirit seemed to prevail through the meeting, and a work has been commenced which we believe will result in good. Six arose for baptism.