Chapter 18—The Camp-Meeting an Aid in Christian
Service
Importance
The camp-meeting is one of the most important agencies in our
work. It is one of the most effective methods of arresting the attention
of the people.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:31
.
In our work we have been perplexed to know how to break through
the barriers of worldliness and prejudice, and bring before the peo-
ple the precious truth which means so much to them. The Lord has
instructed us that the camp-meeting is one of the most important in-
strumentalities for the accomplishment of this work.—
Testimonies for
the Church 6:31, 32
.
Object
What is the object of assembling together? Is it to inform God, to
instruct Him by telling Him all we know in prayer? We meet together
to edify one another by an interchange of thoughts and feelings, to
gather strength, and light, and courage by becoming acquainted with
one another’s hopes and aspirations; by our earnest, heartfelt prayers,
offered up in faith, we receive refreshment and vigor from the Source
of our strength.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:578
.
Our camp-meetings have another object.... They are to promote
spiritual life among our own people.... 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.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:32, 33
.
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