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The Montana Camp-Meeting

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 17, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 38.

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The Montana Camp-Meeting

By R. D. QUINN

THIS camp-meeting was held at Victor, in the western part of the State, and was well attended by our own people, and also by the people of the village and surrounding country.
There were about one hundred sixty of our people encamped on the ground. Elders W. B. White and George E. Langdon were with us throughout the meeting, and their labors were much appreciated. Brother O. K. Buttler, representing the field missionary work of the North Pacific Union Conference, was also present, and rendered valuable assistance in this special line of work and also in the work for our young people.
Prof. M. E. Cady arrived on the last Friday, and remained till the close. His excellent talks and studies on Christian education resulted in a revival of interest in the education of the young people of this conference.
The leading feature of this meeting was the deep spiritual work that was carried on from the very opening until the close. The burden of the message borne was absolute surrender to God, deliverance from the bondage of Satan, complete and constant cleansing from sin, and the reception of the Holy Spirit by faith as the only power sufficient to complete the work of bearing the gospel message to all the world in this generation. The power and intensity of the meeting increased from day to day, as our people walked out in the light and separated from those things that had been hindering their Christian growth. The last Sabbath of the meeting was attended by a mighty outpouring of the latter rain. Fully half of those on the grounds came forward and surrendered anew to God. Many others for whom we had prayed gave themselves to God and his work for the first time. In the afternoon a baptismal service was held on the banks of the beautiful Bitter Root River, thirty-one candidates going forward in the ordinance. In all we had a profitable meeting, and our brethren returned to their homes full of joy and peace.
R. D. QUINN.