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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 7, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 7.

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N. E. CAMP-MEETING.

By G. F. Haines

Dear Brethren and Sisters of New England: The time appointed for our camp-meeting, Aug. 27 to Sept. 2, will soon be here. Shall our camp-meeting this year be a success? The Conference and camp-meeting committees are doing, and will do, all in their power to make the meeting the best ever held in this Conference. Will you co-operate with them? Let every S. D. Adventist in New England do his part to make it such.
1. Make up your mind to attend the meeting yourself. Make a sacrifice to do it if need be. Come at the commencement and remain until the close. These meetings can be made a great blessing to us all. We need to improve upon every means of grace God has given us, to prepare for the time of trouble which is just before us.
2. Take time between now and the meeting for self-examination, and as far as possible put away your sins.
3. Meditate upon the fearful condition of those who are treading under foot the law of God.
4. Then come to the meeting to labor. What a field of usefulness opens up to us at the camp-meeting! In how many ways we might do good! A friendly word spoken, an act of kindness done,—how much can be accomplished in this way eternity alone will reveal. The time has fully come for more earnest effort in the work of God.
Bring your children with you. This may be the time and place when God will answer your prayers in their behalf. It is designed to have a session of the Sabbath School on the ground, and we want to see all the children there ready to take part. In short, come, earnestly seeking the blessing of God, and you will certainly receive it. But if you come with a spirit to visit, you will find yourselves farther from God at the close of the meeting than when it commenced, and very likely hinder those who otherwise might become interested. Once more, be mindful of the wants of others. Let all who can, bring extra supplies, so that they may be prepared to entertain those who may not be provided for.
G. F. HAINES.