CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1876.
By R. F. C.
MINNESOTA, Eagle Lake, June 20–26
WISCONSIN, Ripon, June 29 to July 3
OHIO, Norwalk, Aug. 3–7
MICHIGAN, Lansing, “ 10–14
VERMONT, Essex Junction, “ 17–21
NEW ENGLAND, S. Lancaster, “ 24–28
MAINE, Richmond, Aug. 31 to Sept. 4
NEW YORK, Rome, Sept. 7–11
INDIANA, Bunker Hill, “ 14–18
ILLINOIS, Waldron, “ 21–25 The journals of the day are loaded with appalling accounts of corruption and crime in high places and in low; in Congress and in the Cabinet, in the churches and in the ministry, as well as among all classes of society. Men versed in history, political and social, shudder at the rottenness which is being developed everywhere, and forebode speedy ruin to our government, unless these evils can be cured or, at least, abated. On the other hand, our journals are literally freighted with glowing accounts of numerous and extensive revivals all over the land, from which it would seem that almost whole communities were becoming Christian. The question is, What shall we look for?—“sudden destruction,” or the fabled millennium, of which poets have sung? Go to the word of God for yourself, for the answer. 2 Tim. 3: 1–9; 2 Thess. 3: 1–4. The time is coming when the Lord shall cause “wars to cease unto the end of the earth.” But how? Will the “angry nations” agree to a universal treaty of peace? or will the King of kings descend from Heaven to the battle of the great day of God Almighty, destroying his foes with their implements of war, breaking the battle bow, cutting the spear asunder, and burning the chariots in the fire? See Ps. 46: 8, 9; Rev. 11: 18; 16: 14; and 19: 11–21. R. F. C.