North Michigan Camp-Meeting by Allen Moon

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

North Michigan Camp-Meeting

By Allen Moon

THIS meeting was held at Bay View, a suburb of Petoskey. The camp was located on the shore of Little Traverse Bay, a beautiful sheet of water on which the city of Petoskey is situated. In many respects the location was ideal.

The annual conference of North Michigan was held in connection with the camp-meeting. The business moved on pleasantly, and occupied only one hour each day,—from 9 to 10 A. M. The hours for preaching and social service were not interrupted in any instance.

Elder J. J. Irwin was re-elected to the office of president; E. A. Bristol was elected treasurer of the conference and tract society; Miss Edith McClellan, educational secretary; and H. W. Johnson, field missionary agent. A competent conference committee was chosen to aid the president. E. A. Bristol was ordained to the gospel ministry.

The conference begins a new year with harmony prevailing, and the prospect for a successful year was never better. One good church was raised up the past year, and added to the conference. Still another was ready, but not sufficiently organized. This company consists of more than twenty members. Twenty-six willing souls went forward in baptism during the progress of the meeting. The majority of these were young people, for whom a good work was done on the ground, by Brethren Johnson, Peterson, and Straw, aided by Elders G. B. Thompson and Morris Lukens.

From the first, the interest in the services was excellent. The attendance was not so large as on some former occasions, but all present seemed impressed with the importance of the time in which we are living. Elders Thompson and Lukens were the principal speakers, and they dwelt upon themes appropriate to the occasion. Their testimony was well received and appreciated. Elders Irwin and Guild, and others took part.

The North Michigan meeting is the only one so far that the writer has been privileged to attend from its beginning until the close. The company present contributed to missions abroad, to the work in the South, and for other purposes, nearly one thousand dollars.

The reports of the progress of the book work were very encouraging, and those engaged in this kind of Christian endeavor were filled with enthusiasm; not alone for the reason that they had been successful financially, but because of the excellent opportunity afforded for accomplishing good in the cause of the Master. One could not refrain from concluding that if the Lord can bring

about success in the midst of copper and iron mines, rocks, and jack-pines, certainly no one has any reason for discouragement in that kind of work. Other young people will engage in the sale of our literature the coming year in that field, and the work is onward. Now is the time of labor; but rest will come sure and soon. The machinery that is in active service does not rust out.

ALLEN MOON.