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The North Texas Conference and Camp-Meeting

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 28, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 35.

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The North Texas Conference and Camp-Meeting

By Eugene Leland

THIS meeting was held on the Texas Wesleyan College campus at Terrell, Tex., from July 31 to August 10. This place is well in the eastern part of the conference, and in consequence, or for some other reason, the attendance was not so large as it had been in former years. Still there was a goodly number present and a good spirit seemed to pervade the camp from the start. Elder W. A. McCutchen presided at all the meetings of the conference, which passed off harmoniously. Among the resolutions passed was one adopting the twenty-cent-a-week plan of raising money for the support of foreign missions. This resolution elicited much enthusiastic discussion on the part of the delegates, and was unanimously adopted.
For some time, a meeting had been in progress in the town, by some of the local workers of the conference, but apparently not much interest had been awakened. The evening services of the camp-meeting were devoted mostly to sermons upon doctrinal points, and by the close of the meeting a good interest was created. It was decided to let the tent remain, in order to develop the interest.
Elder John I. Taylor was elected president of the conference, in the place of Elder McCutchen, who had been chosen as the religious liberty secretary of the union conference. Not much change was made in the other officers of the conference.
The book work received its due share of attention, and under the enthusiastic administration of Brother A. F. Harrison, the standard was set to sell one hundred thousand dollars' worth of literature in the Southwestern Union during the present campaign. At the present, they are ahead of the average required to accomplish this work in the given time.
About twenty-five persons came forward on the last Sabbath of the meeting in response to the call for all who wished to make a start in the service of God, and those who wished to consecrate themselves anew to the Lord. The tearful eye and broken spirit indicated that the Spirit of God was at work upon the hearts of the congregation.
On Sunday, though quite a number of the campers had left the ground, a call was made for money to defray the expenses of the camp-meeting, and to replenish the tent fund. More than eight hundred and forty dollars was pledged for this purpose, which shows the loyalty of the brethren and sisters in the old Texas Conference.
The young people's work was well represented by Brother O. B. Watson, and we hope to see many of the young people from this conference engaged in some branch of the Lord's work.
Besides the regular workers in the conference, there were present Elder Geo. F. Watson, president of the Southwestern Union; Elder J. P. Anderson, of China; Profs. C. B. Hughes and H. H. Hamilton, representing the educational interests of the conference; and the writer. EUGENE LELAND.