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The Vermont Camp-Meeting

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 10, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 41.

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The Vermont Camp-Meeting

By H. F. KETRING

THE Vermont camp-meeting and conference were held from August 29 to September 9, on a beautiful plat of ground on the edge of the town of Waterbury. The hills, covered with maple and birch trees, and completely surrounding the town, made a most pleasing sight, and reminded one of the text, “As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people.” We did truly feel that the Lord was round about us, and his Spirit prevailed in all the meetings, the conference meetings as well as the preaching services.
With but few exceptions the conference officers were re-elected. One feature that was especially gratifying was the missionary spirit manifested. With a membership of less than five hundred, for years the Vermont Conference has been supporting a laborer in a foreign field, and when the resolution was presented providing for the continuance of the support of a laborer in China, it was indeed refreshing to hear the speeches made favoring the resolution. How many workers could be sustained in the regions beyond if every conference helped in the same proportion! From the report published in the Sabbath School Worker, Vermont is the only conference in the United States whose Sabbath-schools give all their offerings to missions, and provide for the expense of the local school in some other way. This example is a worthy one, and we hope others will follow it.
According to the report of the treasurer,$242 of their quota of the $150,000 fund was yet unraised. A resolution was presented that they proceed at once to raise it. This was done, and in a little while, with a congregation of less than one hundred, more than that amount was raised.
As the Word of God was presented from the desk, the deep movings of his Spirit were seen in the congregation, and a number sought the Lord for the first time, while others came forward to consecrate themselves and all they had more fully to his service.
Brother E. R. Palmer, Prof. R. F. Cottrell, and the writer were the workers present from outside the conference. As this conference begins another year’s service, may God’s richest blessings attend them.                                                                                                                                             H. F. KETRING.