Camp-Meeting by John Norton Loughborough

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 22, 1875

Camp-Meeting.

By John Norton Loughborough

THERE has been a little delay in deciding upon a suitable camp-ground for this year, still we are deciding it as early as it was decided last year, and should we take the ground that now seems the most advantageous there is much less to do on the ground than last year.

We have been trying to secure a ground that should be central, easy of access from San Francisco and Oakland, and still handy for all our people. We have such a ground in view, which presents facilities far in advance of anything we have had yet for a camp-ground in Cal. Seemingly this ground is made ready to our hand.

While some may have farther to go to camp-meeting than they have for the last two years, they will have no farther to go than others had to come, and did come to them, and those from distant points can reach the contemplated ground as easily as any they have gone to before.

It is said the object of just legislation is to do the greatest amount of good to the greatest number. We are trying to carry out that principle in locating the camp-ground, both with reference to our people and for those we would seek to benefit. Our plans are not all completed, so we will not name the place in this number, but we expect to tell you next week, with many interesting particulars. We say this much this week, because there is so much anxious inquiry about the camp-meeting, and we do not wish you to get the idea that we are unconcerned and indifferent in this matter. We judge from your anxiety that you all design to come to the yearly feast.

Don't begin to look for excuses to keep you away from camp-meeting, but decide like sensible persons that you need the benefits of the meeting, that you must go to the camp-meeting, and make everything bend in that direction and we shall expect to see you all there.

J. N. L.