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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, May 12, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 19

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STILL ONWARD.

By George I. Butler

Two companies of our missionaries were to go to ports on opposite sides of this continent, to aid in disseminating the present truth in distant parts of the world. Eld. S. H. Lane and wife, and J. N. Andrews, and other friends from Boston, go to labor in the British Isles, while Elds. S. N. Haskell, J. O. Corliss, and M. C. Israel, with others from San Francisco, Cal., go to start the work in Australia.
These are important moves. We shall feel deeply the loss of these dear brethren from the work in the field. They are old and tried laborers, thoroughly rooted and grounded in the truth. The two brethren have long been presidents of the Conferences of Indiana and Illinois. Many friends will greatly miss them. Eld. Corliss has labored extensively in camp-meetings and in various parts of the field with good acceptance. Eld. Israel has served on the California Conference Committee. We need not speak of the labors of Eld. Israel, and how much we shall miss him in every present season. I can but express a deep sense of personal loss which I individually sustain in the absence of his counsel and assistance in the important moves being made in this country. We shall greatly miss him; but we hope that after months' absence he may return invigorated and benefited by his journey and the enforced rest which absence from the work will oblige him to take. I should never have consented to his going but for a strong desire to see the work planted in distant lands. We feel that the continent of Australia is entered. “Our field is the world.” This is “to enlighten the earth with its glory.” All who stop and consider, can see whether these moves imply a drying up—a contraction of the work, or a spreading of it to earth's remotest bounds. Our prayers ascend to God for the safety and success of these, our dear fellow-laborers.
G. I. B.