A TENT OUTFIT by D. M. Cunningham

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1879

A TENT OUTFIT.

By D. M. Cunningham

As our ministers spend about four months of each year in their tents, why not have them decently provided for, so that the tent company can be comfortable? It is not very agreeable to go all summer with only a few worn-out blankets to lie on, a box for a table, a paper for a table-cloth, and our fingers for dishes; yet this is what we have sometimes been forced to do.

But now that our Ohio tents are permanently located, each in its own district, where they will remain until worn out, we propose to give our preachers a better chance. Each one will be furnished with a good family tent. Then we ask the sisters in each of these districts to contribute a good bed, towels, table-cloths, and other small articles needed, while the brethren are invited to put in enough to get a set of chairs, a table, bed-stead, small stove, etc. These will be kept in that district, with the tent for which they are designed, and will last a long time if properly cared for. We think this is a reasonable request, and that all will heartily favor it. The three tents which I have visited, viz., Brn. Burrill's, Gates', and Rupert's, have been nearly or quite furnished in this way already. What is wanting we ask others whom we have not seen to make up. We now request the friends to do the same by the other three tents. Where sisters accompany the tents, this is absolutely necessary. Let us not neglect God's servants. I found Eld. Gates' tent a model of neatness, just as every tent should be. Sorry that I cannot say the same of some others. Bro. Rupert's was also very good. Why not have them just right? D. M. CUNNINGHAM.