Nevada Camp Meeting by J. Adams Stevens

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 2, 1914

Nevada Camp Meeting

By J. Adams Stevens

THE first camp meeting of the Nevada Mission was held in Reno, Nev., June 1-7. About one hundred of our people were in attendance from Nevada and the border counties of California. Elders E. E. Andross, president of the Pacific Union Conference, J. O. Corliss, Meade MacGuire, G. W. Reaser, and Prof. M. E. Cady were present during the meeting. The various interests of the message were presented.

The program was essentially constructive, and the power of the closing message attended the preaching of the word. Seventeen candidates were baptized the last day of the meeting, and several will go forward in baptism soon. Some of these accepted the truth during this meeting, and others are deeply interested.

Fifteen hundred and fifty dollars was raised to apply on the institutional indebtedness of the Pacific Union Conference. The Sabbath school offering amounted to twenty-four dollars. Plans were laid to develop the work rapidly in this new field. A committee was asked to select a site for an intermediate school, and it seems probable that five church schools will be operated the coming year.

The Nevada Mission was organized about one year ago, with Elder A. G. Christiansen as superintendent. Elder Christiansen has accepted a call to the European Division, and the writer has been asked to take the superintendency. Brother J. S. Prout is the Young People’s Missionary Volunteer secretary, and Mrs. W. S. Holbrook educational and Sabbath school secretary.

J. ADAMS STEVENS.