NOT FOR SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS.
By L. A. S.
Under the heading, “Something of Importance,” we note the following in the Church Advocate and Holiness Banner, published at Fort Scott, Kan.:— “My Brothers and Sisters Scattered Abroad, Greeting in the Lord: As the time is almost here for our camp-meeting, we ought to make all the necessary arrangements we can beforehand. Now, we shall need a great deal of meat, and I think we had better buy our beef on foot, and kill it at the camp. I think we can buy it for two and one half or three cents per pound. Are there not some of the Lord’s cattle that can be donated to the meeting? If you cannot donate a whole beef, can you not donate a part? If you can’t donate, then write to the Advocate and Banner and give your price for beef cattle. . . . Attend to this at once. If any are donated, please let us know what day you can drive them to the camp.” Fancy a Seventh-day Adventist camp-meeting, with a herd of “the Lord’s cattle” being driven on to the grounds to be slaughtered and eaten by the carnivorous campers. We think it is well that such a picture would be but a fancy. Seventh-day Adventists cannot too highly appreciate the gospel principles which have saved them from considering a slaughterhouse as a necessary adjunct to the place of “holiness to the Lord.” “A great deal of meat” is not one of our needs at the feast of tabernacles. The truth puts a distinction between the camps.