Fruitage of Minneapolis Conference

The blessed consequences of the great awakening at and after the twenty-seventh session of the General Conference are with us yet. That great spiritual revival led our people not only nearer to God but to larger plans for the education and salvation of our youth. Several new schools were established, and in them the spiritual experiences and the call to missions were very prominent. During the nineties, too, many more missionaries were sent overseas, especially to Africa. In our colleges, foreign mission bands were organized and much study was given by our leaders and churches to the great task of sending the advent message to all the earth, including the extensive heathen lands. A strong work was built up in Australia. Three foreign-language departments were started in Union College—German, Swedish, and Danish-Norwegian. The well-known Abram La Rue went to the Far East. J. N. Anderson, our pioneer missionary in China, with many others following, began our widespread work in that country. During the later years of this revival period, Mrs. White was in Australia. The messages sent from there were an outstanding help. Then after four years she began to give messages on three other subjects: (1) the need of a new order in our organization to enable us to carry on successfully a world-wide mission work; (2) a new approach to our educational problems as fitted for all countries; (3) a call to real foreign-mission activity in heathen lands and, in fact, in all the earth. Others have written fully of her stay and work in Australia. I shall only add that her marvelous messages on the topics mentioned rallied our people everywhere to greater things for God. Thus the aftereffect of the great Minneapolis revival was the beginning of another era for the advent movement. This blessed period of revival, beginning in 1888, which was so rich in both holiness and mission fruitage, came, above all, as a direct result of the work of the messenger of the Lord through the Spirit of God.FSG 244.4