Our Camp Meetings by G. B. Thompson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 23, 1915

Our Camp Meetings

By G. B. Thompson

NEARLY all the camp meetings for the North American conferences are now in the past. With a few exceptions each of the seventy-one conferences in the Division has held one camp meeting, and local meetings have also been held in a number of conferences. Aside from the union and local conference workers, these meetings have been attended by general laborers. Elder A. G. Daniells, since his return from a missionary tour covering such mission fields as India, China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippine Islands, has attended meetings in the Pacific and Lake Unions. Elder I. H. Evans attended a number of meetings in several union conferences. Elders J. O. Corliss and M. C. Wilcox rendered excellent and much appreciated service at a number of meetings. A number of other general laborers have attended meetings in different unions.

The reports received from these annual gatherings have been of a most encouraging nature. The conditions in the world have aroused our people, and the attendance at most of the meetings has been larger than usual. The outside attendance has also been excellent, and in some instances remarkable. The response to the appeals for help for the regions beyond has been liberal. Revival services have been held, and sinners have been converted, backsliders reclaimed, and hundreds have renewed their consecration to God. The burden of labor is resting more heavily upon the people as a whole, and those returning home from these meetings have done so with a clearer knowledge than before of the tremendous responsibility which is upon them individually to work for souls. The outlook bids fair for a great soul-winning campaign in the year to come. The message is forging ahead in the home field as well as in fields afar.

We feel much cheered by the reports from these annual convocations, and devoutly pray that the future will be marked by deeper piety, fuller consecration, more fervent zeal, and greater activity in the message than ever before.

G. B. THOMPSON.