ORGAN OF THE 11111114 N111 111111 Ai 01 II BRITISH UNION CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS MESSENGER EDITOR W. L. EMMERSON
VOLUME 70 • NUMBER 26 DECEMBER 17, 1965
A Message to Our People from
The Northern European Division Winter Council
E, the members of the Northern European Division Executive Committee, assembled on this first occasion in our newly dedicated headquarters office in St. Albans W for the purpose of transacting necessary business in connection with the orderly and successful prosecution of the work of God in Northern Europe, West Africa, and Ethiopia, send warm Christian greetings to all our believers and their children in these many countries. We extend our heartfelt thanks to our membership for their loyalty to the message and to the church, and for their sacrificial support under the prospering hand of God of our evangelistic field and institutional programmes, thus helping to make it possible for us to vote the largest budget in the history of the Northern European Division. Through the fruitful co-operation of the ministry and laity under the blessing of God, an unprecedented harvest of souls has been brought into the brotherhood of the church and substantial material advancement of the work has resulted in all lands of the Division. The Northern European Division is a far-flung field. The work has spread marvellously, especially in the African fields, but, brethren and sisters, much remains to be done. Political, religious, and social events indicate with precision that we are indeed living in the climactic period of this globe's history. The lengthening corridors of time are rapidly leading human events toward the "night when no man can work." In such a time as this there is a need for the total energies of our churches to be focused on the task at hand, and for yet deeper devotion and consecrated commitment. The providential openings for the extending of the Advent message in many parts of our Division field, constrain us all, members and workers, to dedicate ourselves anew to the finishing of the Gospel commission's task in order that the world may be lightened with God's glory. "For this cause" together with you, we bow our "knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, "That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, "May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; "And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God." Ephesians 3 :14-19.
THE DIVISION COMMITTEE.