DEFINITE DIRECTIONS by James White

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 21, 1879

DEFINITE DIRECTIONS.

By James White

Those who give appointments of camp-meetings should be careful to give definite directions for the benefit of those who attend them. They should give the location of them for the good of those coming from a distance, as well as those near by. If on a railroad, they should state what road, and also give the lines leading to it. If off from the railroad, they should state the direction and distance from the road, the time of arrival of trains, and the means of conveyance from the depot to the camp.

People who pay out their money to be conveyed to our camp-meetings find great relief in reading definite directions how to get to them. In case of failure to give proper directions, the very ones who most need their benefit are sometimes discouraged from attending them. There is especial danger of failing to secure the attendance of such from a distance when definite directions are not given.

The one who gives the appointment may write with the supposition that all within one hundred miles of the place of meeting perfectly understand where it is located, and the way to get to it, which may be true, while he fails to shed any light on the path of those who wish to attend from a distance. This may be especially true in regard to ministerial help from a distance. The writer has paid his fare hundreds of miles out of the way during the past ten years, in trying to reach places of meetings, for want of definite directions.

The Canada, P. Q., camp-meeting is appointed at Magog. No doubt all in the Province of Quebec and northern Vermont know where that is, and the way to reach it; but going from Colorado, as we designed, we were at a loss to know over what roads to purchase tickets from Battle Creek, or from Detroit, and how far. These particulars should have been given, either in the REVIEW or by private letter. JAMES WHITE.