IMPORTANT MEETING FOR ILLINOIS by B. F. Merritt

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, December 23, 1884

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 61, No. 51

IMPORTANT MEETING FOR ILLINOIS.

By B. F. Merritt

The meeting appointed by Eld. R. F. Andrews for Ridot, Jan. 23–25 will be a very important one. The State quarterly meeting will be held in connection with it. Also at this meeting the Sabbath-school work will receive attention. We expect that Eld. Tait, President of the S. S. Association, will have arranged model classes, blackboard and object lessons, etc., and will superintend that branch of the work. We also expect that Bro. Wm. Hibben, President of the Health and Temperance Society, will be present, and that this branch of the work will receive due attention.

As this is probably the last State meeting our beloved Bro. Andrews will be able to attend with us before going as a missionary to Europe, we trust it will be a very profitable one, and that all who reasonably can, will attend. The meetings will commence Wednesday evening, Jan. 21, and we expect the time will be wholly taken up in earnest work for the furtherance of the cause in this State.

Let all our directors that can, be present. Those who cannot, will be expected to report. Now let each director endeavor to so arrange matters in his district that he may report it free from debt and the cause advancing under his charge. Also let all our agents see that their dues to the society are settled; and let all our brethren throughout the State, who justly owe a thank offering to the Lord for the health, good crops, and prosperity with which we have been favored, remember the missionary work within our borders, and send

such donations to the cause as they may purpose in their hearts, by their director or some agent or by mail to Lizzie S. Campbell, Belvidere, Ill.

Let our directors talk up this matter, and as our brethren begin the new year, let donations from all parts of the State flow into the treasury, like little rills into a river; and God will send forth the waters of salvation, and revive and save many who are perishing. Let us begin the year right, and labor to the end that great prosperity may attend the cause of God the coming year.

Let all those come to the meeting who wish to learn more fully how to work in the cause. Bring some bedding, and ample provision will be made for the comfort of all who come. Let all with one heart ask God's special blessing upon this meeting.

B. F. MERRITT.