Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-08-27
THE ADVENTlSTS
Continue Their Campmeeting With
Large and Interested Audiences.
Social Service Early Monday Morning Fol.
lowed by Three Regular Services.

AT D. ~ A. NJ, yesterday, bnere was
most wonderful and beneficial gathering
Of the followers of Christ In the capacity
of social service. The Spirit of God
came to some hearts as 1t has seldom
done before Strong Impressions were
made and many good testimonies were
borne to the strengthening of those in the
faith. AS 1t Is impossible to do justice to
work of this sort by description, 1t will
be necessary to leave the reader to imagine
what 1t was like. If he has experienced
such before then he will know Great
good is being done and while many are
becoming more set in wickedness, 1t Is
true that the spirit Of the Saviour is caus-
ing the hearts of His own to warm anew,
and drawing them to the fold Of the true
Shepherd.
Elder H. c. Basney took this text for
the forenoon sermon: 1.-THE remnant of
Israel shall not do iniquity." Zeph., 3.13.
"Iniquity is sin. Sin is the transgres-
sion of the law The revelation says that
the dragon was wroth with the woman
and went to make war with the remnant
of her seed which keep the commandments
of God and have the testimony of Jesus
Christ.
These two texts are parallel, both re-
ferring to the same time and to the same
people. The woman represents the church.
The remnant means the last end of the
church, and the fact that the remnant
shall do no iniquity, but keep the COM
mandments of God shows conclusively
that the last end of the church or Israel
will be living in harmony to Gods re-
quirements and will consequently come
to place and time when they will have
ceased to sin, the power of God doing the
work and not they themselves.
1.-The Israel here spoken of by the sacred
writer, means not the literal seed OF
Abraham by descent, but it means any
and every one who become converted to
God and believe on Him. The Scripture
saith, They who are of faith are the chill
dren of Abraham and heirs according to
the promise
"Thus we see that one who believes on
God can be counted as the seed of Abra-
ham In the Bible sense, and thus the
Christian of today be of the remnant of
the church which keep the commandments
of God and have the testimony Of Jesus
Christ, against which the dragon, repre-
senting the organized force of the powers
Of darkness, will and is making war"
The afternoon sermon was by Elder P.
B. Osborne of Pittsfeld. Text: Joshua,
4,15. .'And if 1t seem evil unto you to
serve the Lord, choose you this day whom
ye will serve; whether the gods which
your fathers served that were on the other
side OF the flood, or the gods OF the Amor
ties, in whose land We dwell; but as for
me and my house we will serve the Lord. "
The evening meeting was preceded by
the singing of an impressive and well
rendered solo, by Mr.. f. f. Osborne, en-
titled "The Three Messages !"
The sermon by Elder NJ G. Huffman,
was founded on Romans, will: IA, For as
many as are led by the spirit of God they
ara the sons of God "
There was talk on health reform after
the afternoon preaching service, by Miss
Wing of Michiga who is to give some
instruction in regard to hcalthful cookery
dress and hygcnlc reform.