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Camp-Meeting for the Chesapeake Conference and District of Columbia

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 6, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 36.

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Camp-Meeting for the Chesapeake Conference and District of Columbia

By K. C. RUSSELL

EVERY Seventh-day Adventist knows that the Bible has foretold a famine, “not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.” If we knew that there was a famine approaching, how earnest we would be to prepare for it by seeking to obtain a supply of food for ourselves and our loved ones. We know that the bread of life is more necessary to us than our temporal bread, for the Saviour says, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” How much more important, then, that we put forth most earnest efforts to lay up in store for ourselves and friends and loved ones a supply of the bread of life for the coming famine that is to overtake us than it would be to secure a supply of temporal food for an ordinary famine.
The camp-meeting which is to be held near Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., September 11-16, will provide a special opportunity for all to secure a supply of the bread of life for this famine. The time selected to hold this meeting is a most desirable one, as it will be at a time when the extreme heat of the summer is past, and before the fall term of our schools will open.
Let those who are hesitating in regard to attending this meeting decide at once to make a special effort to be present. People who belong to worldly associations make great efforts and sacrifices to assemble in conventions for the purpose of promoting the interests of their organizations and work. How much greater should be our zeal and interest to avail ourselves of these opportunities that involve eternal life! Suppose it does require a special effort on our part to arrange to leave our homes for a few days, should we let these temporal matters outweigh those things which involve our eternal interests?
Let it be remembered that this meeting will be for only a few days,—less than a week. Therefore there can be but little excuse for any one's not making a sacrifice to attend it.
K. C. RUSSELL, Chairman of Evangelical Committee of the District of Columbia.