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Is It Consistent?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 16, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 8.

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Is It Consistent?

By G. W. Colcord

1. Is it consistent for some of our brethren and sisters in Northern Illinois to have called for ministerial aid, during the past few years, while the labor has been bestowed on parts of the field farther south, and now, as we labor in their very midst, I repeat, is it consistent for said persons to stay away from the meeting? “I trow not.”
2. During the past few years, several in Illinois have said: “If we could have our camp-meeting in August, I could attend; but as it is to be held in June, I can’t go.” This year these friends have their desires gratified in point of time of appointment. They have been especially favored. If they remain away from our annual meeting this year, will it be consistent with their own words? They know it will not.
3. I received word, last week, from a member of our camp-meeting committee, saying: “I will be on the ground in time, even should I be compelled to leave my grain in the field till I return.” We have elected this brother to this office; now, should he be thus devoted to the cause—should he thus sacrifice and toil to make the meeting a success, and we, who elected him to his position, stay at home? If we should, any of us, let us not call it consistency!
4. Be consistent. Attend the tent-meetings near you. Go to your annual camp-meeting. Prepare for the glorious meeting on Mount Zion. G. W. Colcord.