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The New Jersey Camp-Meeting

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 19, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 42.

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The New Jersey Camp-Meeting

By H. R. Salisbury

THE New Jersey camp-meeting was held at Trenton, September 7-17. The camp was favorably located in a part of the city very convenient for outside attendance, and as a result, the evening meetings especially were well attended. On both Sundays, at the afternoon and evening services, the tent was full to overflowing. The meeting seems to have made a good impression on the people of Trenton; the large tent, with a strong corps of workers, was left to follow up the interest, which, we hope, will result in greatly strengthening the work already established in that city.
On the first Sunday afternoon, a successful temperance meeting was held. One of the speakers, the president of the Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey, spoke highly of the work done by the Seventh-day Adventist denomination for the cause of temperance. He said the Temperance number of the Instructor was the best paper of the kind he had ever received, and he was glad that large numbers of it were being used in his State. He further stated that if the other Christian denominations of New Jersey would take the same stand on the temperance question as our denomination, the battle for prohibition could be fought and won in a single day.
Brother B. F. Kneeland, who, as president, has served that conference faithfully for four years, was called to the presidency of the West Pennsylvania Conference, and his place in New Jersey has been taken by Brother A. R. Sandborn, of the East Michigan Conference.
The General Conference laborers in attendance were Brethren W. A. Spicer, F. C. Gilbert, J. H. Schilling, and the writer; while Brethren B. G. Wilkinson, J. E. Shultz, and I. G. Bigelow represented the Columbia Union Conference.
There was no conference session held at this meeting, but the reports of the work done by the conference president and his associates, showed an encouraging growth in every part of the work, both spiritual and financial.
H. R. SALISBURY.