p. 16 | The Wyoming Camp Meeting by W. W. Ruble

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 9, 1916

The Wyoming Camp Meeting

By W. W. Ruble

The Wyoming conference and camp meeting, held at Bridgeport, Nebr., received much of the blessing of the Lord. From the first there was manifested on the part of all a deep yearning for a closer walk with God; and the Saviour fulfilled the promise made to those hungering and thirsting after righteousness.

Each department of the work was represented and received its share of study, and plans were laid which will mean advancement in the work of this conference.

The workers present in addition to those connected with the Wyoming Conference were: Elders R. A. Underwood and J. H. McEachern, Profs. H. A. Morrison and C. L. Benson, and M. E. Ellis.

The ordination service was a very impressive one, when Brethren Paul Curtis and W. A. Long were set apart for the sacred work of the gospel ministry. A special sense of the obligation resting upon those set apart to this sacred work seemed to rest upon all present, and a renewal of consecration to the finishing of this great work in this generation was made.

The special consecration service the last Sabbath was marked by the deep movings of the Spirit of God. Sins were confessed and consecrations were made which we trust will result in a deeper work of grace upon the heart of each one present. Surely the Lord drew near to his people.

Sabbath afternoon fifteen persons were buried with their Lord in baptism. Ten of these were young people whose lives we trust will be spent in the work of carrying the saving message to a lost world in the last generation.

The attendance the first Sabbath at the Sabbath school was 97, and the donation was $93. The second Sabbath the attendance was 189, and the donation was $200. The total donations for missions were more than $1,000. The book sales amounted to more than $300.

The last day of the meeting a temperance rally was held. The people of the village took part in this meeting, and showed a real interest in the cause of temperance.

The present conference officers were chosen to serve the coming year: N. T. Sutton, president; Asa Smith, secretary-treasurer; F. C. Clark, field missionary

secretary; J. M. Fletcher, Missionary Volunteer, educational, and Sabbath school secretary.

The executive committee is as follows: N. T. Sutton, Asa Smith, E. H. Curtis, H. A. Fish, and J. M. Fletcher.

The president’s address contained the following items of interest: Conference membership, 570; number of churches, 25; Sabbath school membership, 775; number of Sabbath schools, 42; Sabbath school donations, $2,390.13; church schools, 6, with an enrolment of 67; students in Union College, 24; Missionary Volunteer societies, 5, with a membership of 105; book sales (1915), $7,723, and for the first six months of 1916, $6,070; tithes (1915) $10,956.54, and for the first six months of 1916, $7,938.07—a gain of $2,545.70 over the first six months of 1915.

The Lord is certainly blessing the work in the Wyoming Conference.

W. W. Ruble.