To the friends of the cause in Eastern Michigan.
By D. H. Lamson
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: The time for our feast of tabernacles hastens. It is appointed for our good, and the good of the cause in our part of the State. Are you coming to the camp-meeting at Orion, Sept. 18-23? How easy of access it is, almost at your own door; some of you can come on foot, some with teams, others on the trains that will bring you to the grounds. Dear brethren, I have met many of you face to face; I have enjoyed your hospitality, and baptized many of your households. Now I wish you would feel that this article is addressed to you, pleading with you to come. Let nothing keep you away. Many brethren whom you have never seen will be there. Nearly all of the ministry of the State will be there; and what is better than all, the angels of the Lord will encamp about us, and the Spirit of God abide with us. Bring your children. Do not let one that can come remain away. The heart almost stands still at the thought of what the Lord may do for us. There will be few more of these opportunities before the Lord comes. Perhaps many of us will never have another. Then let us not be deprived of such great benefits by any trifle. You are interested in every advance step the message takes; and in every plan laid for it, your own necessities will be met, your wants considered, and means will be provided for you to engage in this great work, the last work for the world. Read Deut. 16: 16, 17. Do not stay away because you are poor nor because you feel so. Do not stay away if you cannot dress as you would like to. “The Lord looketh on the heart.” If you have the abundant blessing of God, come to help others. If you are disheartened and bowed down with discouragement, come and be helped. If you are left alone, seldom seeing any one who loves the truth of God, come; “for as iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.” I have written to many of you personally; to those, and to all who read this article, I would say, Will you go to all who do not take the REVIEW and urge them to come? See every one. Help them over difficulties, remove their excuses, and the Judgment will show that at such meetings as this, if attended with the good Spirit of God, rapid progress has been made toward the kingdom of God. Come, brethren.