Eastern Pennsylvania Camp Meeting by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 13, 1916

Eastern Pennsylvania Camp Meeting

By Editor

It was the privilege of the editor to spend one week at the Eastern Pennsylvania camp meeting. He greatly enjoyed this season of communion. It is inspiring to go out into the field and feel the true heart-beat of this movement and come into close personal touch with the brethren and sisters who are giving to it their unswerving loyalty. Never has there existed a more loyal people than may be found among Seventh-day Adventists. This loyalty to the right has been demonstrated by their espousal of unpopular truths and their earnest, sacrificing devotion to the promulgation of these truths. In these commendable qualities our good brethren and sisters of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference do not fall behind their brethren and sisters in other parts of the great world field. At this meeting we were particularly pleased and edified by the song services conducted by Elder J. S. Washburn. Brother Washburn feels a great burden to infuse a spirit of true devotion into the service of song, and the Lord is blessing his endeavors in this direction. Elder G. I. Butler, one of the earlier presidents of the General Conference, was present throughout the meeting, and gave a most inspiring testimony regarding the leading of God in the formation of this work, and as manifested particularly in the gift of the Spirit of prophecy. Our people in east Pennsylvania greatly appreciated the talks which he gave on these subjects. Others who attended the meeting throughout will report this excellent gathering in more particular detail.