West Virginia by F. H. ROBBINS

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 28, 1910

West Virginia

By F. H. ROBBINS

The present outlook in West Virginia is very encouraging, and an excellent spirit seems to prevail throughout the entire conference. The tithe is slowly coming up among some of our churches, and our Sabbath-schools are giving all their donations to missions. We are glad for the interest West Virginia is taking in the “Ministry of Healing” campaign, and we hope the tithe will keep on increasing, so that we can support another laborer before long.

It is only as we become connected with the great plan of salvation, and work for God and humanity, that we are of much value in the sight of Heaven. All we save, after all, is what we invest in the cause of God. The one thing worth living for, and the thing which will stand when the voice of God shakes the heavens and the earth, is the third angel’s message. Everything we do to help this message triumph is noticed and recorded on the ledger of heaven.

Our coming camp-meeting, which will be held August 18-28, will be a golden opportunity for our brethren and sisters in West Virginia to work for our young people. Let us seek God earnestly, that the coming camp-meeting season may witness the strongest and most effective effort that has ever been made for our children. God has committed to our hands the sacred work of giving the third angel’s message, and we need to meet together to have our spiritual strength renewed, and also to lay plans for the upbuilding of his cause. If ancient Israel needed to assemble in their holy convocations three times a year, how much more do we at the present time need to meet together to receive spiritual help and blessing.

Elder B. G. Wilkinson will attend our camp-meeting, and we are expecting a number of other leading workers to be with us. On account of not being able to secure suitable camp-grounds in Parkersburg, and taking into consideration the good interest, and an excellent camp-ground offered free of charge at Twelfth and Marshall streets in McMechen, the conference committee has changed the place of camp-meeting from Parkersburg to McMechen, which is a suburb of Wheeling. We believe a good camp-meeting at McMechen will bind off the tent effort, and will be the means of developing a substantial company of believers at that place. Ten have already promised to keep the Sabbath, and about twenty more are under deep conviction. A camp-meeting will be a strong influence in bringing these souls to a right decision.

Let us pray that an influence for good may be felt at our next camp-meeting which will go out as a mighty wave, and keep on going till Jesus comes. The first thing that we need to do at our homes to prepare us for camp-meeting, is to begin to pray earnestly that the divine finger of God’s love may touch every heart in this conference. God has committed to our hands a sacred work, and every individual who knows this

solemn message is under great responsibility. Satan will try to prevent you and your family from attending this meeting. He will present the financial side of the question, and will suggest that you can not afford to go; and a hundred and one things will come up in your imagination that might happen while you are away. Ancient Israel reasoned in this same way, and many of them remained away from their yearly feasts; and then the protecting hand of God was withdrawn from them, and the wild beasts got in among their flocks, and tore them to pieces.

Satan holds up only one side of the question; he does not even intimate what God promises if you attend his holy convocations. The Lord has promised to bless every one who will step out by faith, and attend these yearly camp-meetings. You will never miss what you spend to come; for the spiritual benefits will far outweigh what it will cost, and you will be enabled better to fight life’s battles.

Please order tents early; send all orders to Mr. C. V. Hamer, 1212 Seventh Street, Parkersburg, W. Va.

F. H. ROBBINS, President.