Camp-Meetings in California by Stephen Nelson Haskell

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · May 14, 1908

Camp-Meetings in California

By Stephen Nelson Haskell

BEFORE this notice reaches the readers of the REVIEW, our camp-meeting at Lodi will be in the past. The State camp-meeting will be held in the vicinity of Melrose, a suburb of Oakland, June 4-14. A camp-meeting will also be held in Humboldt County, July 4-14. The exact location of the Humboldt meeting has not been fully decided.

These meetings are of great importance to our people, and should be attended by them from far and near. There never was a year when more important interests centered at our camp-meetings than this.

God's blessing has greatly attended the efforts to scatter our publications. We have never seen such a time as this. The rank and file of our people are taking hold of this work and distributing our literature like the “leaves of autumn.” God is pouring out his Spirit upon those who rise to go forward in the closing work. He is uniting his divine aid with human instrumentalities to save those whose hearts have been prepared for the reception of the truth.

This warning work should be carried on in every city in our land. The time has come for us to expect great things at the hand of God. He is not dead, but living, and is on the giving hand. He unites his divine strength with our feeble efforts, and in this way magnifies his name. We trust the fire kindled by the Spirit of God will take hold of all, and lead them to help in advancing the cause of present truth.

We urge all our people to attend the camp-meeting in the vicinity of Oakland, and also the one to be held in Humboldt County at a later date.

Every preaching tent that we have is out with a company of workers before our first camp-meeting begins, and already we hear of souls taking their stand to keep the commandments of God. We earnestly pray that this year will witness something accomplished that we have not seen in the past. Let us go forward in the fear of the Lord.

S. N. HASKELL, President.