The Arkansas Camp Meeting by H. H. Hamilton

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 9, 1915

The Arkansas Camp Meeting

By H. H. Hamilton

FOR the second time we held our annual encampment at Hot Springs, the city of vapors, in a pleasant grove. During the entire meeting the weather was unusually good, and for ten days we had a most profitable time together seeking the Lord.

Hot Springs is a very beautiful little city nestling in the mountains, about sixty miles from Little Rock, the center of the State. It is famed for its springs of very hot water, which have marked medicinal properties. These springs are under the control of the government, and are annually visited by more than one hundred and fifty thousand health seekers.

Most excellent services were conducted by the local and union conference workers, and by Elder Paap, who represented the General Conference.

About two hundred and fifty were encamped on the ground and in near-by rooms, while we had an average evening attendance of about five hundred. We leave workers here to take care of a good interest.

After Elder Paap’s home missionary talks, many books and tracts were sold at the book tent. More than one thousand and forty copies of “The World’s Crisis” and many dollars’ worth of tracts were disposed of at one meeting. An interesting feature of the meeting was a practical demonstration of the home missionary work by organizing the campers into bands to visit the people in their homes, which they did, leaving a personal invitation to attend the meetings, and also tracts and periodicals in great numbers. The newspapers have been very liberal with space.

At the close of the meeting twelve were baptized. H. H. HAMILTON.