Do not Appear before God Empty

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 10, 1869

Do not Appear before God Empty.

We are about to assemble in general gatherings, at our Camp-meetings. We hope thus to meet with the Lord of hosts. At these meetings the wants of the cause of God will, no doubt, be presented to his people. Would it not be well for all of us who love that cause, to read the directions which God gave to his ancient people under like circumstances:

Deut. xvi, 16, 17: "Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God, in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the Lord empty; every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee." Ex. xxiii, 15: "None shall appear before me empty."