p. 14 | The Wisconsin Camp Meeting by I. H. EVANS

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 20, 1916

The Wisconsin Camp Meeting

By I. H. EVANS

The Wisconsin camp meeting was held in Monona Park, South Madison, June 8-18. The location of the camp was most suitable. A beautiful park, with plenty of greensward, good shade, and fronting the lake, made a very pretty outlook, and afforded every possible convenience for the campers. There were copious rains preceding and during the meeting. The ground became softened by these continued showers, but the last Sabbath and Sunday the weather was good. The attendance of our own people increased until the last Sabbath about seven hundred were on the ground.

The proceedings of the conference passed off in a very satisfactory manner. The conference was divided into two, to be known as the North and the South Wisconsin Conference. It was thought that the Lake Union Conference Committee would arrange with the North Michigan Conference to annex six counties from the north peninsula of Michigan to the North Wisconsin Conference. Elder P. A. Hanson was elected president of the South Wisconsin Conference, and Elder J. J. Irwin, formerly of North Michigan, was chosen president of the North Wisconsin Conference.

All departments of the work were well represented, and the people showed a deep interest in all that pertained to the advancement of the message. Elder Daniells spent the first Sunday and Monday of the meeting with us, giving three of his lectures in a large auditorium seating about five thousand people, located on the camp ground. The attendance from the outside was not large at these meetings, but our people greatly enjoyed the labors of Elder Daniells.

In addition to the local and union conference workers there were present a part or all of the time: Elders A. G. Daniells, F. M. Wilcox, E. R. Palmer, Meade MacGuire, M. L. Andreasen, O. A. Johnson, C. C. Lewis, and J. H. Schilling; Drs. D. H. Kress, T. J. Evans, J. D. Shively, R. L. Stokes, and E. D. Haysmer; Brother L. A. Hansen; and the writer. Drs. Kress and Evans each gave a splendid talk to the campers regarding some phases of medical missionary work.

The conference showed growth in many ways, and the brethren and sisters seem of excellent courage in the Lord. The last Sabbath afternoon nearly five thousand dollars was pledged for foreign missions. A large amount of literature was sold, and our brethren were greatly cheered by the preaching of the word and the reports of those in charge of the work. We may reasonably expect brighter days for the work in Wisconsin.

I. H. EVANS.