How can this SOP directive RE SDA Campmeeting be implemented in Japan ?
part 1 "Securing Attendance
At one time as we were preparing to hold a camp-meeting near a large city where our people were but little known, I seemed one night to be in an assembly met for consultation as to the work to be done before the meeting. It was proposed to make large efforts, and incur heavy expense for distributing notices and papers. Arrangements were being made to do this, when One who is wise in counsel said: {GW 401.1}
"Set your tents, begin your meetings, then advertise; and more will be accomplished. The truth spoken by the living preacher will have greater influence than the same matter will have when published in the papers. But both methods combined will have still greater force. {GW 401.2}
"It is not the best plan to follow one line of effort year after year. Change the order of things. When you give time and opportunity, Satan is prepared to rally his forces, and he will work to destroy every soul possible. {GW 401.3}
"Do not arouse opposition before the people have had opportunity to hear the truth and know what they are opposing. Reserve your means to do a strong work after the meeting rather than before. If a press can be secured to be worked during the meeting, printing leaflets, notices, and papers for distribution, it will have a telling influence." {GW 401.4}
At some of our camp-meetings, strong companies of workers have been organized to go out into the city and its suburbs to distribute literature and invite people to the meetings. By this means hundreds of persons were secured as regular attendants during the last half of the meeting, who otherwise might have thought little about it. We must take every justifiable means of bringing the light before the people. . . . {GW 401.5}
Those who have become interested have to meet sophistry and misrepresentation from popular ministers, and they know not how to answer these things. The truth presented by the living preacher should be published in as compact a form as possible, and circulated widely. So far as practicable, let the important discourses given at our camp-meetings be published in the newspapers. Thus the truth which was placed before a limited number may find access to many minds. And where the truth has been misrepresented, the people will have an opportunity of knowing just what the minister said. . . . {GW 402.1}
14) 14 naked -- clothes (radical for clothes) is gone after eating of the fruit of the forbidden tree
15) 15 distant -- take out the enclosure from the character for garden (Garden of Eden) and the man and woman (2 people) made from the dust with breath walks away
16) 16 ghost or suspicious -- secret man with movement in the garden (Garden of Eden)
17) 17) murderer -- looks similar to the character for older brother except with a mark on his head (Cain, the older brother of Abel, the first murderer)
18) 18) to unite -- people with one mouth (one language) at the Tower of Babel
19) 19) tower -- united as people with one language they use mud and grass (radical for grass or plant) (to make a tower, Tower of Babel)
20) 20) to migrate -- from the west a big division and people start walking away (Tower of Babel was in the west relative to the location of China)
21) 21 baby lamb -- lamb on top of fire (radical for fire)
22) 22 simplified character for righteousness -- drop (blood) on the cross
23) 23 peace -- Lamb of God brings peace
24) 24) hand down, continue -- radical for water eight mouths ; after the Flood, Noah's family of eight continued or carried on the human race
Check out the explanations for the origin of the character for clothes . It says in Chinese that " (yi) is the clothing above or outerwear, and (shang) is the clothing underneath or underwear. (yi) looks like one person clothing two people" Specifically, it's for clothing two people. Sounds like Adam and Eve for me who, because of their nakedness, were the first two people to be clothed in the Garden of Eden by God the one person above. As for , it does have the components parts dust on top of mouth/breath on top of (person person). Again, Chinese characters do not just give shallow sounds but do have individual meanings, and just because atheistic experts in Chinese cannot fathom the deeper meanings does not mean that there is no such meaning. Let me remind you the story in Genesis from the breath of God. Taking out one of Adam's ribs, God formed Eva the first female to be Adam's companion, thus forming the first two people as incorporated in the characters clothing , garden , and distant . Such is the etymology for the Chinese character for garden (Garden of Eden) which has dust on top of breath on top of two people enclosed by a big enclosure on the outside . After Adam and Eva were driven from the Garden of Eden because they fell into sin by eating off the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, the big enclosure that encloses the two first human beings made of dust and the breath of life is removed, and zouzhidi , the radical for walking as in the character for distant carries those 2 people formed of dust and breath of life away.
'The God of Ancient China'
Kong Hee from Taiwan, Herb Kersten in Australia,
or who was the God of the Ancient Chinese; by New Life International Church in Taiwan.
