The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-06-23
AN ADVENT SABBATH.
A Quiet Day Spent in the GrOve-Model
Sermons and Model Sunday Schools
the Order Of the Day.

set last night, following the bible method
OF reckoning the day, during which oil
needful preparations are made to enable
them to keep the day without unnec-
essary labor. To be sure on the camp
ground, where meetings are constantly
in progress, there can not be seen in the
conduct of the people the usual differ
ence between this and other days, still
the careful observer towards
sunset on Friday would note
the unusual hustle which of ecess
ity must precede the twenty-four houIs
OF cessation from toll. The men were at
the stack securing their Sabbath supply
Of hay for the horsos. The women were
tidying up the tents. The last boy
skurried across the campus from the
lake just as the sun was disappearing,
taking a grim satisfaction in the thought
that il he had run pretty close to sacred
time he had done no more than his
parents sometimes did, and that the tine
string OF fish at his side would take the
edge from their reproof II they should
give any. Let not fathers judge him too
harshly who sometimes find it difficult to
keep stock aud crops out of their minds
during the sermon Poor little fellow!
No more OF his favorite sport for twenty
four long hours. Fortunate indeed that
the managers OF the meeting have hearts
touched with sympathy for childhood,
aad have made every provision that
could be made to interest and instruct
the children who are present in large
numbers. Elder Luther Warren
preached an earnest sermon last night
firm the words, "Grieve not the Holy
Spirit OF God whereby ye are sealed unto
the day of redemption" The Spirit Of
God is a YER tenders spirit, and will be
grleved from the heart by carelessness,
indifference, or frivolity. And that
mans condition il terrible indeed from
whom the Spirit has taken his de-
parture, leaving him to his own ways.
The Adyentists make a good deal OF
the Sabbath school. All engage 10 it,
old and young, and they enter into it's
exercises with a great deal OF zeal and
interest. The Sabbath school on the
camp ground is designed to be made a
model to the churches there represented,
aud accordingly plans aresscarefuily laid
during the preceding days, that every
thing may pass off like clock work K.
And indeed such was. the case In the
school that was held this forenoon.
At nine o'clock the bell rang, and
young s5d old were soon seen nurIyrng
to their respective places OF meeting.
There were seven OF these divisions
three OF children, and one each OF youth,
Germans, Scandinavians, and English
adults. In numbers there were 2bl
adults, 2l7 children, 126 youth, 100 Ger
mans, and So Scandinayians, or III 10 all
The general order OF exercises was the
same in all these divisions. The adult
division in the large tent will serve 10
a model Of the rest. There were singing,
prayer, reading OF report OF last years
meeting, recltations singing, records, re-
view, and singing, the whole occupying
a little over an hour intime. After D
opening exercises, the congregation hay-
been seated bp the ushers in groups OF
eight or ten, each group With Q teacher
those teachers stood up before those
classes, and went for them like veteran
preachers. The tent seemedto be full
OF voices. It wa an interesting sight TO
look upon. The zeal and interest were
intense. These people are bible stu
dents sure enough. The lesson was from
the eleventh chapter OF Luke, and the
practical lessons drawn out by the re-
viewer we're that Christ 10 stronger than
satan, and /, able to cast nm out OF the
human heart. Then, when the devil Is
cast out, the man should yield bis heart
fully to Jesus Christ, to be occupied by
HIM, lest satan, returning and hnding
the heart empty, take possession with
greater power than before.
All the Sabbath schools OF the demon.
ination throughout the world make
offerings at every Sabbath school for
foreign missions. The offerings are just
now going TO establish a mission in the
newly opened country of M~ashonaland,
Africa. To-day there were 80 classes,
and the offerings amounted to S45.50,
pretty good for these hard times.
Elder Farnsworth preached q power
ful sermon at eleven o'clock on the sin
against the Holy Ghost. Matt. 1871, 81
This sin If the attributing the work OF
the Spirit Of God to satan. The elder
thought this sin was not committed
usually at any one time, but the indi-
vidual keeps resisting the Spirits infu
ence until finally the heart is left with
out any desire for the salvation OF God.
at the close of his earnest appeal, Q large
Eumber came forward TO seek the Lord.
There must have been nearly a hundred
in all. The work OF laboring for the I'm
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