p. 4 | A Good Beginning by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 4, 1908

A Good Beginning

By W. A. S.

THE Idaho Conference has just held its first camp-meeting since its organization. It is but a nine-months'-old conference; and when organized, was expected to require some help from the union.

For a time, the officers say, it looked as if this help would be needed; but as the situation was placed before the believers in Idaho, the tithes and gifts flowed in in a most unexpected way, until not only has the work in this new conference been sustained, but at this camp-meeting five hundred dollars from the tithe was voted to the General Conference for use in its missionary operations in the regions beyond.

This was done, not out of their abundance, but out of the love for the work of missions, and the determination to share resources with the needy fields abroad. The brethren and sisters rejoiced in the gift.

It is a cheering token, coming from this little conference at the opening of the camp-meeting season.

The spreading work demands constant and systematic giving by all individual believers week by week. These steady gifts to missions in our campaigns are like the continuous rattle of the infantry fire in a battle. And most battles are won by the infantry. But in storming the strongholds of the enemy, the gifts from the conferences, sharing their tithes, is like bringing the heavy artillery into action. Idaho, among the youngest and smallest of conferences, has done splendidly in the opening of the season's campaign.

W. A. S.

Caldwell, Idaho.