p. 15 | The West Virginia Camp-Meeting by B. G. Wilkinson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 16, 1913

The West Virginia Camp-Meeting

By B. G. Wilkinson

The annual meeting of the West Virginia Conference was held in connection with its camp-meeting, at Charleston, September 4-14. The attendance of our brethren was not so large as usual, being affected no doubt, as in the other camp-meetings of the Columbia Union, by the number of those who had attended the General Conference at Washington. But there was a goodly number present, and the spirit of the meeting was excellent. Harmony prevails among all the workers and throughout all the churches.

The attendance from the city was not very large, but the whole attendance combined was sufficient to tax the seating capacity of the church building in which the sessions of the conference and the public meetings were held. All felt that the work in West Virginia had made decided progress this past year. Looking back on the long history of our work in this State and on some of the unfortunate experiences to which the conference has been subjected in the past, the brethren of West Virginia feel that there are new days ahead of this little conference.

The reports of both the president and the treasurer of the conference and the tract society showed that the conference had made splendid gains this past year. Four tent efforts were held in different parts of the State the past summer, with most excellent results. There is now a good laboring force in the conference; a new class of people are accepting the truth, and the openings for presenting the message among the most solid elements of society are many.

Practically the same corps of officers was reelected to serve this coming year as had served the past year. Elder F. H. Robbins was again elected president of the conference, while Brother J. S. Barrows was elected secretary and treasurer of both the conference and the tract society.

The conference is well up in its tithe, and very little was behind at the time of the meeting on the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund, and this was practically made up by the gifts to foreign missions on the last days of the conference. The power of God was present in all the meetings. The reviving grace of the Holy Spirit was felt upon the hearts of the brethren present, and the last Sabbath especially witnessed a splendid reconsecration to God on the part of all present.

The laborers in attendance from outside the conference were Elders G. B. Thompson and D. C. Babcock, and the usual force of union conference men. Never was the outlook for the progress of the work in West Virginia brighter. B. G. WILKINSON.