To Brethren in New England.
By P. C. Rodman
TO THOSE who may attend camp-meeting in New England, and we hope all who can will be there, we want this meeting, which commences Aug. 28, to be the most profitable one we have ever held in New England; and that it may be, each one should do something. Will we do that something? 1. Let each make a personal effort to draw near to God by confessing and forsaking every sin of omission and of commission, as far as possible before he comes; and begin at once, for there is no time to lose. 2. Let parents be reconciled to children, and children to parents; brethren and sisters to each other, and as far as possible to their neighbors. Remove every stumbling-block, and so seek ye the Lord that he may come in and take full possession of your hearts and control your entire being; then he will go with you to the feast by the attending angel. Then what a power will attend. Why, we may be as terrible as an army with banners and as fair as the moon. Then pray without ceasing for the hand of the Lord to control our meeting. Pray for the committee. Pray for the officers of the Conference. Pray for the preachers that preach the word to us. Pray one for another, that ye may be healed of your backslidings, and be renewed in body and in mind. Persuade every one to go who you think may be profited by being there. Soon it will be too late to help our friends or ourselves. The last generation is fast passing away; is almost past. But little time remains to work. Let us go about it at once with all our might, that when Jesus comes he may say, “Well done.” This will more than pay for all we may endure here. Remember, “In such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.” Matt. 24: 44.