The Oklahoma Camp Meeting by H. H. Hamilton

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 16, 1915

The Oklahoma Camp Meeting

By H. H. Hamilton

The Oklahoma camp meeting was held this year in Oklahoma City, on the same spot where the camp was pitched three years ago. There were approximately twelve hundred of our own people in attendance, and the average audience at the evening services numbered about fifteen or twenty hundred.

Our work in Oklahoma City is quite well known on account of the active work of our church there, and the further fact that our annual encampment has been held there several times.

We were especially pleased to meet so many excellent young people. At every service the young people’s tent was crowded to overflowing. At a consecration service conducted by Elder F. W. Paap in the large tent on the last Sabbath, when he asked how many of the young people would signify, by standing, their willingness to go anywhere the Lord would have them go, or do anything the Lord would have them do, nearly two hundred arose, and were asked to take their places on the platform and face the congregation. Elder Paap then addressed some very well-chosen remarks to them and to the parents, and pointed out their duty to take advantage of every opportunity to make themselves efficient workers in the cause of the Master. At the close of the meeting, about thirty-eight were baptized. Many of these young people will enroll as students in Keene Academy the coming year.

The labors of Dr. P. T. Magan, and Elders F. W. Paap, G. F. Watson, J. H. Schilling, G. P. Gaede, H. Shultz, and G. F. Haffner, were greatly appreciated. These brethren were ably assisted by the local and union conference laborers.

Four newspapers of the city carried advertisements of the services, and also contributed liberal space for synopses of the sermons.

The reports of the secretaries showed that the conference is in good financial and spiritual condition. About six thousand dollars was raised for the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund. At the close of one of the meetings 1,700 copies of “The World’s Crisis,” 1,755 of “The Vatican and the War,” and $250 worth of tracts were sold.

Visitors from the city manifested great interest in the evening services, and our large pavilion was filled, and the space around it taken up by people in automobiles and carriages. Every one seemed desirous of hearing the opinions of Seventh-day Adventists concerning the European war in the light of prophecy. We hope for much good as a result of this great meeting.

H. H. HAMILTON.