p. 24 | Going to Camp-Meeting

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 11, 1912

Going to Camp-Meeting

A LITTLE eleven-year-old girl in the State of New York is very anxious to attend camp-meeting the coming summer, but her parents are poor and unable to furnish the necessary money for her expenses. As she is too young to do manual labor sufficient to earn the money for her expenses, she was greatly perplexed until the conference president's wife suggested the sale of the Temperance Instructor, and offered to go out with her the first day, and in four hours they sold sixty papers.

The next day the little girl's mother went with her in her own town, and in a very short time they sold all the papers they had on hand. Now they have ordered more papers, and the mother and little girl are both going to sell the Temperance Instructor, and the financial outlook is so favorable that the whole family is planning on going to camp-meeting.

In our efforts to help others, we ourselves are often blessed, not only in basket and store, but with Heaven's greatest gift, the presence of the Comforter. The Temperance Instructor possesses great power in changing individuals' manner of life, in bringing peace and plenty into the homes of sorrow and poverty, and in molding public sentiment favorable to temperate living. Those who circulate it are, in fact, public benefactors, and are themselves greatly blessed.