Nebraska Camp-Meeting by A. T. Robinson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 30, 1909

Nebraska Camp-Meeting

By A. T. Robinson

THE Nebraska camp-meeting, pursuant to appointment, was held at Hastings, Neb., on the same grounds occupied last year, the date of the meeting being September 2-12. It was preceded by a workers’ meeting of one week, during which the camp was put in readiness. Three meetings were held with the workers each day during the workers’ meeting. These meetings were considered very profitable by all who took part in the work of preparing the camp.

Elder O. A. Olsen, Prof. P. T. Magan, and Dr. A. C. Selmon were with us during the entire meeting. Elder H. H. Votaw, of India, Elder E. T. Russell, and other Central Union Conference laborers were with us during a portion of the time.

The annual session of the conference was held in connection with the camp-meeting, one hundred thirty-nine delegates being present.

A little less than seven hundred of our people were encamped on the ground. A strong work was carried forward in behalf of the youth and children. The two o’clock hour each day was devoted to some special phase of missionary work. Elders Olsen, Russell, and Magan conducted most of the preaching services. Several revival efforts were made, which met with a ready response on the part of nearly the entire encampment. On Sunday, the closing day of the meeting, an appeal was made in behalf of missions, and $5,452.00 was raised in cash and pledges. At the close of a sermon on the subject of baptism at the forenoon service on Sunday eighteen persons were baptized in the lake adjoining the camp. This was a very pleasing and solemn service, witnessed by large numbers of people seated on the banks of the lake.

Eight meetings of the conference were held, during which there was manifested the utmost harmony and unanimity of action. Many questions were discussed in the fullest and freest manner, and every vote taken was unanimous. The conference officers elected were as follows: A. T. Robinson, president; C. H. Miller, vice-president; M. E. Ellis, secretary; Anna M. Peterson, treasurer. Additional members of executive committee: D. R. Callahan, J. H. Kraft, H. Hansen, A. F. Kirk. Board of trustees Nebraska Conference Association: A. T. Robinson, president; Anna M. Peterson, secretary and treasurer; additional members: L. B. Johnson, D. R. Callahan, Lyman Middaugh.

We all look forward with hope and courage to the year’s work that lies before us. A. T. ROBINSON.