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Camp Meetings and Our Publications
In connection with our camp meetings in past years, God’s ser-
vants have improved many precious opportunities for instructing our
people in practical methods of presenting the saving truths of the
third angel’s message to their friends and acquaintances. Many have
been taught how to labor as self-supporting missionaries in their
home communities. Many have returned home from these annual
gatherings to labor with greater zeal and intelligence than hitherto.
It would be pleasing to God if far more of this practical instruc-
tion were given the church members who attend our camp meetings,
than has usually been given in years past. Our general workers and
our brethren and sisters in every conference should remember that
one of the objects of our annual gatherings is that all may gain a
knowledge of practical methods of personal missionary work. This
phase of our camp meetings is outlined in
Testimonies for the Church
,
volume 6, as follows:
“God has committed to our hands a most sacred work, and we
need to meet together to receive instruction, that we may be fitted
to perform this work. We need to understand what part we shall
individually be called upon to act in building up the cause of God
in the earth, in vindicating God’s holy law, and in lifting up the
Saviour as ‘the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
world.’
John 1:29
. We need to meet together and receive the divine
touch, that we may understand our work in the home. Parents need
to understand how they may send forth from the sanctuary of the
home their sons and daughters so trained and educated that they will
be fitted to shine as lights in the world. We need to understand in
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regard to the division of labor and how each part of the work is to
be carried forward. Each one should understand the part he is to
act, that there may be harmony of plan and of labor in the combined
work of all.”—Pages 32, 33.
“Properly conducted, the camp meeting is a school where pastors,
elders, and deacons can learn to do more perfect work for the Master.
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