Chapter 72—Christian Recreation Christian Recreation [Reported as spoken before a company of about two hundred who were enjoying a season of recreation at Goguac Lake, near Battle Creek, Michigan, May, 1870.] I have been thinking what a contrast would be seen between our gathering here today and such gatherings as they are generally conducted by unbelievers. Instead of prayer, and the mention of Christ and religious things, would be heard silly laughter and trifling conversation. Their object would be to have a general high time. It would commence in folly and end in vanity. We want to have these gatherings so conducted, and to so conduct ourselves, that we can return to our homes with a conscience void of offense toward God and man; a consciousness that we have not wounded nor injured in any manner those with whom we have associated, or had an injurious influence over them. {2T 585.2}

[Ingen indflydelse kan være til så stor skade for et konferensmøde eller for nogen anden religiøs sammenkomst som tom tale og megen ligegyldig snak. Mænd og kvinder samler sig tit i grupper og beskæftiger sig med samtale angående almindelige emner, som ikke vedrører mødet. Nogle har taget deres landbrug med sig, andre har medbragt deres huse og lægger planer for at bygge. Nogle kritiserer andre sønder og sammen og har ingen tid eller tilbøjelighed til at ransage deres egne hjerter, til at opdage manglerne i deres egen karakter, så de kan rette på deres (598) fejl og fuldkomme hellighed i Guds frygt.