Northern Illinois Camp-Meeting by Wm. Covert

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jul 11, 1907

Northern Illinois Camp-Meeting

By Wm. Covert

OUR annual camp-meeting for the Northern Illinois Conference is to be held at Aurora this year. The date is August 29 to September 8, including the opening and closing days named. We have seldom seen a more beautiful place for a meeting. It is also easy of access, and all the neighborhood is inviting. The whole plot of eight acres or more is sodded with blue-grass, and there are some splendid trees for shade, upon the ground.

The Aurora and Elgin Electric Railroad, and also the Aurora Electrical Belt Railroad, pass the camp. The ground is high and nicely undulating. There is a good spring of water near by, and the camp will also be furnished with water from the city reservoir.

The whole situation is encouraging, and we are very anxious for a large attendance of our people. We confidently expect to have an excellent meeting. Our planning is for an old-fashioned camp-meeting, where all who are there expect to take part and do something to help some one else.

We have reached that time in our work when every member should be as constant to duty as is the sun to its rising. All will be expected to talk courage, and to labor to make the meeting a happy success.

Wholesome words of encouragement and pleasant references to things of good report will receive a hearty response from the committee of management. It is high time for Seventh-day Adventists to be making arrangements for the heavenly meeting, and our camp-meeting at Aurora this year is appointed for this very purpose. Who will attend with this object in view? WM. COVERT.