The Chesapeake Camp-Meeting by B. G. WILKINSON

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 6, 1913

The Chesapeake Camp-Meeting

By B. G. WILKINSON

The annual session of the Chesapeake Conference was held in connection with its camp-meeting at Chestertown, Md., September 18-28. The camp was pitched on the grounds where the camp-meeting was held about three years previous. There was a good attendance of our brethren, and also of the people of the city when the weather was favorable. The interest developed so well that it was found necessary to leave a laborer.

An excellent spirit prevailed throughout all the meetings, and the Spirit of God was present to add his blessing. The revival meetings on both the first and second Sabbaths were witnessed to by the presence of the Spirit of God, and many souls found relief in a living Saviour. The truth, as presented each night from the pulpit, met with a hearty response on the part of the audience, and altogether we can say that it was indeed a blessed and profitable meeting.

The report of the president noted advancement in all phases of the work the past year. There was an increase of about $1,600 tithe, and a splendid increase in the amount of foreign mission offerings, over the preceding year. There was also an encouraging growth in the membership of the conference.

The business affairs of the conference moved off harmoniously and profitably. One morning was devoted entirely to the Harvest Ingathering campaign, and the brethren present from the churches subscribed for nine thousand extra copies of the special number of the REVIEW AND HERALD. A meeting devoted entirely to educational matters saw a large number of young people expressing a definite intention to go to the educational institution of the Columbia Union Conference.

Elder Roscoe T. Baer was called again to the presidency of the Chesapeake Conference, and the other officers who served the conference the past year were re-elected.

It is very pleasing to note the activity that is manifested in this conference in raising up memorials for the truth of God. The brethren at Fords Store, Md., have just finished putting up a new edifice to meet their demands. The brethren at Rock Hall have done the same. Through the labors of Elder F. W. Paap, there has been dedicated in the city of Baltimore a new brick building valued at about $15,000. Elder R. H. Martin is also conducting a campaign for the erection of a church building at Wilmington, and on the second of November a church building will be dedicated at Hagerstown, Md., where Brother Peden has been working. Still another church building is to be erected at Whiteisville, Md.

Besides the regular union laborers, there were present Elders W. A. Spicer and C. S. Longacre, Brother A. J. S. Bourdeau, and Dr. H. W. Miller of the Washington Sanitarium. We believe that the prospects for the work in the Chesapeake Conference this coming year are indeed good.

B. G. WILKINSON.