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The Importance of Small Gatherings

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 14, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 35.

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The Importance of Small Gatherings

A NOTION seems to pervade the minds of some Christians that the gatherings of the church are of no importance unless there is a great crowd. They get the idea, somehow, that the assembly of the saints is a small and insignificant affair except somebody is there to chastise all who may be opposed to them in their religious views. The gathering of a few faithful ones for prayer and praise, for a careful and systematic study of the Scriptures has no charms for them. All that will stir the religious blood in their veins is what they call a "big meeting."—Sel.