North Michigan Camp-Meeting by Allen Moon

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 22, 1909

North Michigan Camp-Meeting

By Allen Moon

A LOCAL camp-meeting was held in the Northern Peninsula, on the banks of a beautiful bay of Lake Michigan, near the city of Gladstone, only a few miles from Escanaba. The camp was nicely arranged; and besides a number of family tents, there were three meeting tents, where services were held each day in as many different languages — English, French, and Swedish. Elder A. C. Bourdeau conducted the services in the French, Elders S. Mortensen and Stenberg in the Swedish, and Elder J. W. Westphal and others in the English. A fair interest was manifested by the people in the vicinity, especially by the Swedish people, and the meetings were well attended throughout. The interest created will be followed up by some of the laborers.

Elder Westphal’s talks regarding the work in South America were well received by all, and the people responded liberally to the call for the support of the work in other lands. The spiritual interest was excellent, and all seemed to take a stronger hold on faith; and the truth seemed clearer and dearer to these people living in the land of copper.

The location, the weather, and the circumstances attending this meeting, as well as the evidences of the nearness of the final consummation, all seemed to combine to make it an impressive occasion. The meeting closed Sunday night, June 27. Although this was a small meeting, the expense of holding it was fully met. The brethren in the Northern Peninsula of Michigan are full of courage in the Lord. ALLEN MOON.