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The Maine Camp-Meeting

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 18, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 38.

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The Maine Camp-Meeting

By R. D. Quinn

THE Maine camp-meeting and forty-fifth annual conference were held at Camden, August 14-24. The location of the camp was all that could be desired. Camden is on the coast of Maine, in plain sight of the ocean, and the cooling breezes were very refreshing to the campers.
The meeting was well attended by our own people, and a splendid spirit prevailed throughout. On the first Sabbath there was a general response to the preaching of the word and a call to repentance. As far as could be seen, every one in the tent came forward, with the exception of one man—an elderly gentleman not of our faith. As the meeting progressed he arose and stated that he had been a Christian for thirty-five years, but had come to the conclusion that there was still a greater blessing for him to receive, and came forward with the rest to seek the Lord.
Elder F. M. Dana, recently of the Greater New York Conference, was unanimously elected president of the conference. Brother Dana enters upon his labors in that field with the fullest confidence and support of all his brethren.
Considerable attention was given to the call that has come from the spirit of prophecy to work Portland, and Elder and Sister Haskell were invited to return in the near future and hold a ten days' institute to open the work in the city again. Five hundred dollars was received on the Maine camp-ground for this purpose.
One of the very encouraging features of the meeting was the splendid attendance on the part of the people of the city at the evening services. An excellent interest had been awakened before the conference began by Elders A. J. Verrill and E. E. Osborne and the Bible workers associated with them. Quite a number have taken their stand for the truth, and some were baptized at the close of the camp-meeting.
The following laborers outside of the local conference were in attendance at the meeting: Prof. W. W. Prescott, Elder and Sister S. N. Haskell, Elder N. Z. Town, Prof. B. F. Machlan, Elder Geo. B. Starr, Brother C. J. Tolf, and the writer. We bespeak for the Maine Conference a bright future and a growing and developing work.
R. D. QUINN.