Camp Meeting at Ponoka by C. F. McVAGH

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 24, 1916

Camp Meeting at Ponoka

By C. F. McVAGH

THE camp meeting at Ponoka, Alberta, Canada, was well attended. About one hundred tents were pitched, and quite a number were accommodated in rooms in the town. Ponoka is in a bush country, about eighteen miles north of our school at Lacombe. The beautiful scenery and the shade were much appreciated by all. The weather was ideal for such an occasion.

The arrangements for the meetings and for the care of the people showed careful planning on the part of the conference management, and gave general satisfaction. Meetings were conducted in English, German, Russian, and Scandinavian. Dr. John Reith, of Walla Walla Sanitarium, was present, and gave good help along medical missionary lines. Elders E. W. Farnsworth, W. W. Eastman, and G. F. Haffner, and the writer, represented the general interests. The labors of Profs. A. V. Olson, E. C. Kellogg, and J. F. Simon were much appreciated. Brother W. L. Manfull found a live interest in the book work. The force of colporteurs in the field will be greatly strengthened. The camp meeting literature sales were very encouraging. Every call for spiritual advancement met with a ready response, and quite a number were baptized at the meeting.

During the meeting representatives from the field visited the school at Lacombe, and extensive repairs and improvements were authorized. About $6,000 was pledged for school and mission work. Elder H. H. Humann was reelected president, with the same executive committee, except that Elder Fred Johnston took the place of Brother Chas. Rick, who has moved from the field. Mrs. M. H. Crothers was elected secretary of the Sabbath school department. The work is moving forward, and the people are of good courage.

C. F. McVAGH.