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The Ohio Camp-Meeting

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 23, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 38.

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The Ohio Camp-Meeting

By B. G. Wilkinson

THE annual camp-meeting of the Ohio Conference was held on the banks of a beautiful lake in one of the city parks of Lima. The grounds were only about five minutes' ride from the two principal railway stations, and not more than fifteen minutes' walk from the heart of the city. In consequence, there was a good attendance from those unacquainted with the truth, and they listened with great eagerness. One hundred forty tents, with their highways and byways, composed the temporary city in which were housed those Seventh-day Adventists who had come up to attend the annual feast of God's people. There were about six hundred fifty who had left their farms and fields for this purpose.
Unlike the annual maneuvers of national armies, all the exercises of this encampment were spiritual. The Captain of the Lord's host was there, and in his presence the people were blessed. The different phases of work—educational, young people's, medical, etc.—were well organized and well cared for. Elder A. G. Daniells was there, representing the General Conference, and his instructions were both helpful and strengthening. Elder A. J. Haysmer, of Alabama, visited the camp one day, in the interest of the work in the South.
The camp-meeting was one of the best. Each day the truths presented seemed more practical, and the work grew in strength. On the last Sunday of the camp, twenty-nine were baptized. The people gave, in cash and pledges, $683.65 to Mt. Vernon College, and $950.50 to foreign missions, or a total of $1,634.15. During a revival, the last Sabbath afternoon, two who had been under conviction for over four years, surrendered to the truth. The following night, after the presentation of the Sabbath question, two strangers from the city publicly signified their intention to begin the observance of the Sabbath. As there was no business connected with the meeting, no items can be reported from that standpoint. The Lord certainly blessed in this gathering, and the work in Ohio will feel the results of the good spirit which came in.
B. G. WILKINSON.