Missouri and Kansas Camp-Meeting.
By Smith Sharp
DOUBTLESS most of the readers of the REVIEW have seen the appointment for the Missouri and Kansas Camp-meeting, and I write this merely to insist that our brethren in this Conference make an extra exertion to attend this meeting. The General Conference have done all they could for us since this Conference was organized, and I do not wonder that they begin to feel that their efforts are not very highly appreciated, and have sent us no one as a missionary this year. Still they propose to send labor for the camp-meeting, and shall we not show that we have some interest by laying aside our home cares and coming out to spend a few days in a camp in trying to get our hearts deep enough into this work to prompt us to go to work and put our Conference on a better financial basis? This will be an important meeting, and it does seem to me that nothing but absolute impossibilities should keep any one from attending. Many of us have been acquainted before coming here, and used to go long distances to attend these yearly gatherings of the children of God. Can we not show that since coming here, the world has not taken up all our thoughts, but that we still have a disposition to lay aside our cares and meet together to worship God? As I write this, the names of many that I once met with in camp-meeting in Iowa that are now living in this Conference come to my mind, besides the names of many that I have seen in the REVIEW with whom I have no personal acquaintance, and many that I have heard of, but have never seen; and I earnestly hope to see them at this meeting. Let us stop our work for a short time and come to seek God.
SMITH SHARP.
Centerville, Kansas.