The Palmer (Neb.) Camp-Meeting by Frederick Griggs

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 17, 1911

The Palmer (Neb.) Camp-Meeting

By Frederick Griggs

JULY 24-31 there was held at Palmer, Neb., one of the four local camp-meetings of the Nebraska Conference this year. For several weeks, Brethren C. A. Beeson and C. H. Miller had been holding a tent-meeting in this place. There has been an excellent interest, with very little opposition. Palmer is a quiet, pretty village, located in a prosperous agricultural district. So the camp-meeting had many advantages, both on account of its location and on account of the interest already existing in that place.

There was probably at no time more than one hundred of our people in attendance, and yet throughout the meeting there was an unusual manifestation of the converting influence of the Holy Spirit; sinners were converted and back-sliders reclaimed, until nearly every person on the camp-ground had given his heart to the Lord.

The spirit of the meeting was well manifested in the liberal offering for foreign missions. There were from fifty to sixty persons in the tent the morning that we considered the offerings for missions, and about $2,400 was raised, $1,300 of which was to be paid before Jan. 1, 1912, and $1,100 contingent upon the sale of property. There was no urging whatever to secure this large amount from this small number. God is richly blessing the work in the Nebraska Conference, and the hearts of all, both ministers and people, were greatly cheered by this meeting. FREDERICK GRIGGS.