p. 17 | Australia by O. A. OLSEN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jan 4, 1906

Australia

By O. A. OLSEN

SYDNEY, N. S. W.—We are now nearing the close of our camp-meeting at Marrickvale, a suburb of Sydney. We have had an excellent meeting, with the largest attendance of our people that has ever been known in New South Wales. I have seldom seen a better ground. It is a fine, enclosed paddock, nicely shaded with trees, not too large. We have had considerable rain during the time, but no storms whatever. The attendance from the outside has been very good; still the rain and the cold have doubtless kept some away who would otherwise have attended.

The Spirit of the Lord has wrought in our camp. There has been no undue excitement, but a very perceptible deepening of earnestness. Every testimony meeting has been improved to the fullest extent; no delaying or dragging whatever. This is a feature that is always encouraging and interesting.

The different lines of work, such as mission fields, book work, health work, educational work, Sabbath-school and religious liberty work, have all been taken up, and a day given to each. We have found the study of these various questions very profitable; so that our conference business meetings, instead of being altogether business, have really been instruction meetings. And there has been a growing interest from first to the last.

We have decided to continue the camp-meeting another week. Some will go away, and others will come to take their places. The ministers and workers will remain, and after that a corps of workers will stay to follow up the good work. We hope to see a good, strong church raised up in this portion of Sydney. O. A. OLSEN. Oct. 22, 1905.