QUARTERLY MEETINGS IN KANSAS.
By J. Lamont
On the separation of our State from Missouri, the policy of supplying ministerial help at the quarterly meetings of each church in the State was adopted, and has been carried out with good results. Yet a great deal more may be accomplished if the churches will do their part of the work. This has been abundantly proven, some churches having taken right hold of the work, while others have not done so. The different results show what and where the lack is. 1. Attendance. 2. Disposition to work when there. Instead of trying to manufacture excuses for not being present at the first part of the meeting, the last or some other part of it, our brethren would be more profitably employed in earnestly laboring to overcome such real hindrances as may exist. Interested outsiders, seeing so little interest manifested in the truth by its own adherents, easily lose the interest they had in the matter. As to the disposition to work during the meeting, S. D. Adventists should never attend such a meeting simply to be preached to; but having first invited all their friends and neighbors to attend the meeting, they should work earnestly for their conversion to God and his truth. Talk to and with them. If it is a better way, urge them to walk in it. They expect this from you. When the sermon has brought some precious souls very near the kingdom of God, must they wait and stay out, like the poor impotent man at the pool of Bethesda, having no one to help them in? “A word spoken in due season, how good is it!” yet so often withheld! Brethren, put away this foolish, and almost wicked, timidity. Let each one determine to be “a good soldier of Jesus Christ.” Soldiers are not afraid, at least they ought not to be so. J. LAMONT.