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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 13, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 3.

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CAMP-MEETING

By F. A. Barlow

Our camp-meeting has just closed. Probably the largest gathering of Sabbath-keepers ever assembled in Iowa were at our Marshalltown meeting. The Spirit of the Master seemed ever present. It was indeed a feast of fat things. Oh! if the brethren who remained at home could realize what they have lost they would begin now to prepare for the next camp-meeting. But, after all, it may be that in some cases they have shown their preference by remaining at home. Where our treasure is there our heart will be also.
Our race will soon be run and those who have chosen that better part will receive a crown and a title to a permanent home in the beautiful city, one of those mansions that Christ has gone to prepare; John 14: 2; and those who are so absorbed with business that they have not time to attend to anything else will hear their insulted Saviour repeat the words of Matt. 25: 41: “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.” And, worst of all, we who are Sabbath-keepers do these things understanding the consequences. We know what the Master’s will is, and then, after all, many of us choose to do those things that will bring upon ourselves the same punishment that is promised to the devil and his angels. Those who are willing to do Satan’s work here must expect to be punished in like manner, if not to the same extent, as their master whom they serve. How can those professing to keep all the commandments be so careless? They talk as though they expected the Lord was soon to come; and yet by their actions others are led to believe that such an event is not to be expected for the next thousand years.
Out of our own numbers the enemy will secure some victims to suffer final destruction outside of the city. Some of us will then see what we have lost. Oh, fearful day! Our love for the world is to prove our ruin. Our desire to increase our earthly possessions is far greater than our desire to get the love of the truth down deep into our hearts. Oh! that we might awake to a realizing sense of our duty to God and to each other before that day comes when the destinies of all men will be fixed. Let us make that preparation that we shall wish we had made when Christ appears in the clouds of heaven.
F. A. BARLOW.