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The Southern Idaho Camp-Meeting

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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 29.

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The Southern Idaho Camp-Meeting

By W. B. White

THE annual camp-meeting and conference for Southern Idaho was held at Payette, Idaho, June 18-27, and was the largest camp-meeting ever held in this conference. Thirty-seven tents were pitched. The last Sabbath the Sabbath-school had a membership of two hundred twenty-seven, and about sixty-five dollars was donated by the school for foreign missions. This conference is one of the few whose Sabbath-schools give all their donations to our foreign mission work.
The laborers present from outside the conference were: Elder Wm. Healey, of Southern California; Elder F. W. Field, of Japan; Elder W. R. Smith, of Korea; Elder A. J. Breed; Brother Carl Weaks, our union conference canvassing agent; and the writer. Harmony prevailed throughout the meeting, and all seemed to desire more of the Spirit's power for service. The preaching was of a practical nature, showing the nearness of the end, the claims of God's law, and the necessity of surrendering the self-life that the fulness of the Spirit might be enjoyed in all our labors.
A large number of young people of promise were present at this meeting, and daily services held for them were of an encouraging nature. The Southern Idaho Conference has a goodly heritage in her young people, and we are sure that from their number many will go out into the great harvest-field, to give their life service to God. In their early morning service of the last day of the camp-meeting, these young people gave, in cash and pledges, one hundred five dollars for the purchase of a young people's tent for camp-meeting and tent work; at the same hour about seven hundred dollars was donated by the adult members in the large pavilion for various enterprises.
Work is now going forward on the new school building at Eagle, and it is the hope of this conference to open this school by October 1.
Southern Idaho is a promising field, and we expect to see here a good, strong conference. Elder J. M. Willoughby was unanimously elected conference president, and we are sure he will have the hearty support of his brethren as he endeavors to build up the work in that field. All seemed much encouraged to press on till victory is won.
W. B. WHITE.