The Moscow (Idaho) Camp-Meeting
By F. D. Starr
This meeting was held, according to appointment, May 25 to June 4, 1905. Perhaps this is the first time an attempt has been made to hold a camp-meeting while the General Conference was in session, so it was rather an experiment. But it seemed impossible to accommodate the people of this part of the Upper Columbia Conference at any other time. The laborers from abroad were Elders E. J. Hibbard, H. Shultz, and H. J. Dirksen, and others. Meetings were conducted in both German and English in their respective tents. The attendance of our own people at the meeting was quite fair, though quite a number went to the Portland, Ore., camp-meeting instead of the Moscow meeting. There was quite a good attendance from the city also. Many pronounced the meeting the best they had ever attended. The Spirit of the Lord was present in rich measure, and many gained a good experience. Communications from the president of the conference, Elder A. J. Breed, who was attending the General Conference in Washington, D. C., gave an encouraging influence to the meeting, and at times it seemed as if our camp and the one at Takoma Park were not very far apart. We felt that we, with them, were having a heavenly sitting together. Though sundered far, by faith we met. Before the close of the meeting, twenty-one were baptized, and others desiring baptism returned to their homes to have the ordinance performed there. We thanked God for the results of the good meeting, and felt that the undertaking was not a lost one, though we regretted the absence of the president and General Conference representatives.
F. D. STARR.