Loup City (Neb.) Camp-Meeting
By A. T. Robinson
Loup City is situated on the middle Loup River, and has a population of a little more than one thousand. We have a small company of faithful brethren and sisters at this place, whose lives are a testimony to the saving power of the message for our time. They have a neat house of worship, in which Sabbath services are regularly held. The camp-meeting was located on a beautiful plot of ground in the eastern part of town. The meeting opened Wednesday evening, June 1, and continued until Sunday evening, June 12. During the first days of the meeting it rained a good deal of the time. This prevented quite a number of our brethren and sisters, who would have come with teams, from doing so, and the number of those encamped on the ground was not large. The attendance from Loup City was fairly good every night, and a good impression was made on the minds of the people. Elders Daniel Nettleton and L. E. Johnson, Prof. C. C. Lewis, Dr. W. A. George, and the writer were the speakers in attendance. The preaching, which was made exceedingly practical, dealt largely with the great, living issues of the message which makes us a distinct and separate denomination. Several revival services were held, when the deep movings of God's Holy Spirit rested upon the people. Several persons gave their hearts to the Lord, and fully accepted the truth as presented. On the closing day of the meeting, a large concourse of people assembled on the banks of the river, where, eight persons followed the example of the Saviour in baptism. It was a beautiful and impressive ceremony. Although the number of our people present was small, they responded nobly to the call to defray the expenses of the meeting; $101.64 was pledged to different conference funds. One feature of this camp-meeting is worthy of special mention. Twice during the week the whole camp was organized into a missionary band, and led by the president of the conference and the superintendent of the district, went out visiting the people; thus every family in the town was twice visited and invited to the meetings, and all had reading-matter left in their homes. If we should adopt the plan of holding many such small, comparatively inexpensive camp-meetings ings, organizing them into a sort of workers' meeting to reach the people, we could thus stir these smaller towns with the message in a few days' time.