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The Maine Camp-Meeting

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 12, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 32.

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The Maine Camp-Meeting

By E. W. Farnsworth

THIS meeting was held in a suburb of Portland. The communication was easy and direct with the city. The camp was beautifully located, and the weather was delightful.
Sister E. G. White, Elder W. C. White, Elder S. N. Haskell and wife, and Elder H. J. Edmed, and other union laborers were present and took an active part in the labor of the meeting.
Portland is the city where Sister White had most of her early Christian experience. It was in this city, at the age of thirteen, that she heard William Miller, and embraced the advent message. It was here that she was disfellowshiped from the Methodist Church for so doing. It was here that she attended school, and here that she received the unfortunate injury that made her an invalid during her early years. Ever since that time some of her relatives have lived in Portland, and during the camp-meeting she lived with the family of her nephew, the son of her twin sister. Sister White feels a very deep interest in the progress of the truth in Portland, and during past years the burden has rested on her heart that the people of that city where the first message was proclaimed with such power should also have the third message carried to them.
Elder C. H. Edwards, of the Southern New England Conference, attended the camp-meeting, and greatly assisted in the labors of the meeting. He was called to attend a mass-meeting held in the interests of religious liberty at Rumford Falls, and after it was over, he returned to assist in the work in Portland, and has been holding meetings since the camp-meeting closed. We hear there is considerable interest, and we feel hopeful that a good number of honest souls may be gathered out.
The Sabbath-keepers in Portland have begun the erection of a house of worship. It will be a heavy task for them to complete this, and we bespeak for them the sympathy and assistance of all the brethren and sisters in the Maine Conference, and of any others who desire the prosperity of the work in our large cities.
E. W. FARNSWORTH.