Eastern Pennsylvania by K. C. Russell

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 13, 1911

Eastern Pennsylvania

By K. C. Russell

THE Eastern Pennsylvania camp-meeting was held in Emmanuel Grove, near Allentown, Pa., June 8-18. The meeting-place was about five miles from the city, and could be reached quickly by street-car.

The grounds are arranged something after the plan of a Chautauqua assembly. Instead of tents, the campers occupied wooden cottages, which form a large circle around a commodious pavilion. Everything was very convenient for those in attendance.

There were about four hundred of our people at the meeting. Owing to the distance of the camp from the city, the attendance from outside was not large except on Sundays. Besides the regular conference laborers, there were present Elders George Watson, Charles Thompson, B. F. Kneeland, F. C. Gilbert, and I. G. Bigelow; Prof. S. M. Butler; Brethren L. A. Hansen, D. W. Reavis, and E. R. Numbers; and Dr. Olive Ingersoll, Sister Grace Denny, and the writer.

The meetings were characterized by much of the presence of the Spirit of God. Both of the Sabbath services were occasions long to be remembered because of the power of the Holy Spirit that was present to convict of sin, and bring to precious souls the assurance of a Saviour’s pardoning love.

Each department of the work was given its share of attention. Excellent reports of the meetings were published daily in the Allentown newspapers, and thus the public was reached with the truth, even though the outside attendance was not large.

The business of the conference was executed with harmony and despatch. Elder W. H. Heckman was unanimously elected as president of the conference for another year. An aggregate of some twenty-three hundred dollars in cash and pledges was raised, principally for the $300,000 Fund. About twenty persons were baptized. On the first Sunday afternoon of the meeting, an enthusiastic temperance rally was held, in which a strong protest was made against the curse of the liquor traffic.

Certainly the work of God is onward in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference.

K. C. RUSSELL.