p. 248 | Hanford Camp-Meeting by M. C. Israel

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1882

Hanford Camp-Meeting.

By M. C. Israel

A REPORT of this meeting was given last week, and reference made to the temperance and missionary work, statistics of which are as follows: A few weeks before the meetings commenced, about two hundred and fifty copies of the Signs were sent from the office, to as many families who lived in the vicinity of the place where the meeting was to be held. This advertised the meeting, and brought many out who otherwise would not have been present. Eleven thousand pages of tracts were distributed; quite a good proportion of these were on the subject of temperance. About three hundred copies of the Signs were also distributed.

Ten subscribers were obtained for the Review, twenty-one for the Signs, ten for Good Health, six for the Instructor, and six for the College Record. At the close of two of Sister White’s discourses, the temperance pledges were passed, with the following results: Teetotal Pledge, forty-seven signers; Anti-Rum and Tobacco Pledge, thirty-six signers; Anti-Whisky Pledge, thirty-six signers.

We visited a man who signed the Teetotal Pledge. He was a prisoner at Andersonville during the late war. The time of our meeting found him steeped in whisky and tobacco, but on hearing Sister White’s discourses on temperance, he decided to become a temperate man. At last account he had remained true to his pledge, and his aged mother had commenced keeping the Sabbath.

Much was done for the advancement of the third angel’s message in this place and vicinity, and the way is opened for missionary labor.

M. C. ISRAEL.