D. W. MILK by D. W. MILK

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 28, 1869

D. W. MILK

By D. W. MILK

From Bro. Milk.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: Bro. Andrews makes many good remarks on “Economy” in a recent number of the REVIEW, which perhaps we would do well to read again, and profit by them. But there is another point of economy which I want to call the attention of the brethren and sisters to. It is in regard to preparing food for camp-meetings. Many, no doubt, attend these meetings who are poor, and think they will be able to buy but little food while at the meeting, consequently they will work hard to prepare enough to last through the meeting. Bread, cakes, pies, &c., in abundance, are prepared. But at the end of three or four days, much of this is spoiled, and has to be thrown away. This we saw in clearing the ground after the camp-meeting at Owosso. Potatoes, loaves of bread, cakes, pies, &c., to the amount of several dollars’ worth, were strewn on the ground, and we tried to burn up the mouldy piles, that others might not behold the poor economy of God’s professed people.

Let me say to those preparing for future camp-meetings: Profit by our experience. Take only what will keep good one or two days. Let your hearts, (and not your trunks and satchels,) be loaded down with the necessities of the cause, instead of the necessaries of this life. Then you may expect the blessing of God to follow you, and the meeting to not be in vain. By thus doing, you will save your time and strength you would spend in needlessly preparing food before, and the perplexity in caring for it while at the meeting. Thus you will economize both temporally and spiritually.

D. W. MILK

Chesaning, Aug. 27.