TENNESSEE CAMP-MEETING.
By G. K. Owen
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS OF TENNESSEE: Do you realize the importance of a strong, united effort to make this our first camp-meeting a success? If we can bring together all the Sabbath-keepers in the State, it will be but a little flock. Do you profess to hunger and thirst for more of the precious truth? and will any of you remain at your homes, digging for earthly treasure, and let Bro. and Sr. White, and other tried and faithful messengers, come many hundreds of miles with their lamps trimmed and burning, and then leave the State again without your coming a little way to meet them? We hope that in the churches with which we have lately met, none of the resolutions that were passed will be forgotten, and that those we cannot meet before the camp-meeting will also commence immediately to make preparations in heart and mind, as well as otherwise. Let us labor to secure perfect union in our ranks, and be ready to fall into line, ready for action, and eager for the order, “Forward, march,” that valuable time and talent may not be exhausted in waking us up. There is need of pushing the message faster in Tennessee, as surely as the evil servant of Matt. 24:48 is raising a false cry. Let us all feel that we must have more of the Holy Spirit in our hearts before the time of the camp-meeting; and let us work “till Jesus comes, and then be gathered home.” Edgefield Junction, Tenn.