GET READY IN SEASON by Joseph Harvey Waggoner

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 22, 1878

GET READY IN SEASON.

By Joseph Harvey Waggoner

Our camp-meetings are generally quite short for the amount of work which is to be done in them. Meetings for the religious interest of all are sometimes crippled by the press of business which must be hurried through. To some—to many—the meetings are of little benefit, because they are not ready to enjoy them till the time is at least half gone. I have attended camp-meetings appointed to commence Wednesday, and the commencement of the Sabbath cut short the unfinished work of preparation. Last year I saw some important work in fitting up done at the close of the Sabbath and on first-day morning, because the Sabbath came on before the work was completed.

This ought to be remedied. It must be remedied everywhere, to have our camp-meetings as profitable as they may be. There is a loss to the whole meeting in such cases, which cannot be estimated. There is a total loss of much of the meeting to those who come late and only get everything fixed to their liking near the time to close the meeting.

To have a profitable meeting, all should be ready to enter heartily into the work at the very commencement, and stay till the close. When this is done by all the brethren and sisters, then our camp-meetings will be seasons of refreshing to all, and the very memory of them will be a rejoicing. J. H. WAGGONER.