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The New Mexico Camp-Meeting

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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 33.

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The New Mexico Camp-Meeting

By C. McREYNOLDS

I wish to speak to every one in this Territory who loves the solemn message for which this people stands.
We are in a new field. Although it is sparsely settled, it is filling up at a rapid rate and developing its resources marvelously. Soon these broad plains, where a house is seen now and then, will be covered with prosperous communities. How important, then, that adequate plans be laid at once to meet these growing conditions!
Many of you, like the writer, came from the more populous conferences, and you may reason that since this is so small a conference, the camp-meeting will necessarily be a small affair, and hence it is not worth while to go to much expense and put forth great effort to attend it. The fact that the conference is at present small is one important reason why you should attend this annual meeting, and assist, to the extent of your ability, in laying plans for the most effectual aggressive work.
The writer well remembers when the annual camp-meeting in Iowa was no larger than ours in New Mexico will be, and nearly all came with teams, some a distance of three hundred miles. It is the unanimous testimony of those who put forth great effort to attend camp-meeting once a year that the blessing received is proportionate to the effort put forth in faith.
It is according to God's order that these annual gatherings are called, and the appointments are his own. Hence we know he will not disappoint us, but will be first on the grounds.
Come, dear people who belong to God's remnant church. We are entrusted with the greatest responsibility, even the giving of this, the last warning to a perishing world. Come to this annual meeting at Corona, August 17-27. Come to get a blessing, to be a blessing, and to take a blessing home. Your presence, your cooperation, your prayers, your cheerful testimonies, will be a great encouragement to those upon whom the burden is lying heavily, whose hands must be stayed up to carry the burden of the work against all opposition.
By request of the conference president I write this appeal, with a hope that some hearts may be stirred to come even through much difficulty.
C. McREYNOLDS.