Camp-Meeting in Superior Mission Field
By William Covert
This meeting was held at Gladstone, Mich., July 28 to August 8. All the laborers in that field were present during all the time. Elder Allen Moon, president of Lake Union Conference, was present the first seven days. Elder Wight, president of the North Michigan Conference, attended three days, and Elder S. M. Butler, principal of Cedar Lake Academy, was there during three days of the meeting. The writer of this report assisted in the meetings about nine days. The camp was very pleasantly located near the waters of the north extremity of Green Bay. A place better suited for a camp could scarcely be found in any part of the country. The number of persons camping on the ground in the early part of the meeting was about thirty, but this increased until seventy-five or eighty were in camp. The attendance from the city was not large, but it was steady, and quite an interest was developing in the truths of the message when the time set for the closing of the meeting came. It was therefore planned to continue another week beyond the date set for the limit of the camp-meeting. Although the number in attendance was quite small, yet twenty-one persons were baptized. The majority of these had accepted the truth the past year, and availed themselves of this opportunity for baptism. In compliance with a vote of the Lake Union Conference Committee at its meeting at Berrien Springs, May 26, Brother F. J. Harris was ordained to the gospel ministry. Elder M. C. Guild was chosen for the superintendency of the mission field. It was voted to ask the North Michigan Conference at its next annual session to receive the territory comprising this field into its conference limits. If this is done, it will then cease to be a mission field, and will become a part of the North Michigan Conference. The following items taken from the annual report rendered at one of the business meetings by Mrs. Florence Hutchinson, secretary and treasurer of the mission, show that the different interests have had careful attention, and that there has been a healthy growth in the work during the last year:— Membership, July 1, 1903.......... 150
Present membership ............... 180
No. organized churches ............ 5
Companies nearly ready for organi-
zation ........................... 2
No. Sabbath-schools ............... 9
No. family Sabbath-schools ......... 4
S. S. donations for year ending
July 1, 1904 ................. $ 131 17
Annual offerings .................. 160 02
First-day offerings ............... 25 27
Miscellaneous offerings to for-
eign missions ................. 14 90
Tithe received from Superior
Mission Field ................. 1,657 25
Assistance from East Michigan ..... 155 00
Assistance from West Michigan ... 1,200 00
Assistance from Lake Union
Conference .................... 300 00
Miscellaneous receipts ............ 89 01
Total .......................... $3,401 26
Cash on hand, July 1, 1903 ...... 290 73
$3,691 99
Paid out in salary and expense .. 3,444 35
Balance, July 1, 1904 .......$ 247 64
Amount of book sales for eight
months ...................$1,675 00 The financial showing is far better per capita than the average of our conferences. We trust that the work in this field will continue to advance until all the people have had a chance to hear the truth.
Wm. COVERT.