Children’s Meetings and Church Schools
At all our camp meetings, work should be done for the children
and youth. A children’s meeting or Bible kindergarten should be held
daily under the direction of teachers qualified for the work. In simple
language, lessons should be given both from the Bible and from nature.
Kindergarten methods and object lessons from nature will be of great
advantage in interesting the little ones. At some of our camp meetings
children’s meetings have been held twice a day. After the morning
lesson, on pleasant days, teachers and children would take a long walk,
and during the walk, by the banks of a river or in the grassy fields,
a halt would be called and a short lesson from nature given. In such
lessons as these the children can be taught the parables of Christ. The
truth will be fastened in their minds as a nail in a sure place.
In our work for the children the object should be not merely to
educate and entertain them, but to work for their conversion. We
should ask the blessing of God on the seed sown, and the conviction
of the Holy Spirit will take hold of even the little ones. If we exercise
faith in God, we shall be enabled to lead them to the Lamb of God that
taketh away the sin of the world.
This is a work of the greatest consequence to the younger members
of the Lord’s family. In these meetings even children who are favored
with Christian instruction at home can learn much that will be a great
help to them. If the children are taught in the simplicity of Christ, they
will receive the knowledge; and as they return to their homes, they
will bring forth from the treasure house of the heart precious lessons.
The youth should be given opportunity to become more fully in-
structed in the word of God. Bible truth should be made plain to them.
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Those who have an experience in the truth should search the Scriptures
with them. This will be as seed sown in good ground.
Such meetings for children and youth, if rightly conducted, will
be attended by many who are not of our faith, and the lessons learned
at the meetings will be repeated at home. Through the children the
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