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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 14, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 8.

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There is quite a complaint in some quarters against the running of Sunday trains to camp-meetings. A writer in the Inter-Ocean of Aug. 5, 1879, suggests a remedy for the evil. It has reference to a camp-meeting to be held at Des Plaines, and is as follows:—
“Now I have a proposition I wish to offer: As the meeting is to continue ten days, with but one Sabbath intervening, let there be no public service on that day, but keep it as it was originally instituted—a day of rest. Let the tent-holders gather food (manna) on Saturday sufficient for the Sabbath, close the boarding-house, and kindle no fires on the Lord’s day. This will obviate the necessity of railway trains, vehicles, the serving of refreshments, and providing corrals for 500 horses. I would recommend Bible-reading in every tent and cottage. It would be well to read largely from the Book of Deuteronomy. I think this will harmonize the whole Sunday camp-meeting question, for it is of divine appointment.”
Is not this luminous! Keep Sunday “as it was originally instituted.” Indeed! How would that be? By work; as God began his work on that day. Give the man a Bible and request him to read the first and second chapters of Genesis.