A Second-Sabbath Service
By W. A. S.
THERE is a growing interest in the second-Sabbath missionary service, the program for which is sent out monthly by the Mission Board to all church elders. Elder W. J. Stone, of Indiana, writes an interesting report of the service which they carried out according to program even at the camp-meeting:— “Instead of having a regular preaching service, as some thought we ought to have at a camp-meeting, we had our regular missionary reading, as it was the regular missionary day. I conducted the services, and read Elder Evans’s article, then Elder Farnsworth and Elder Young read the second and fourth readings, and in the Sabbath-school we had the part published in the Worker. We had the large missionary map of the world, pointing out on that all the places mentioned in the readings; and when we were through with the services, many who had heretofore taken but little interest in the missionary readings said that hereafter they would take a greater interest in the second-Sabbath services. It was one of the best meetings, if not the very best, that we had during the whole camp-meeting. We took a rising vote at the close of the service to see how many would go to their homes and carry out the plan of second-Sabbath services, and nearly every one present voted to do this. We talked to them about the weekly offerings, and the collections were good each Sabbath of the meeting.”