South and North Dakota Camp-Meetings
By R. A. Underwood
The first of these meetings was held at Canton, S. Dak., June 13-19, a workers’ meeting having preceded the camp-meeting proper. The meeting was held on the bank of Soo River, on grounds fitted up by the Epworth League. Our camp was about five minutes’ walk from the center of the town. There was a good supply of outside ministerial help, and meetings were held daily in three different languages. The attendance from Canton was not large, yet a good many heard truths they can never forget. During the meeting sixty-five dear souls were buried by baptism in the Soo River. About fifteen hundred dollars was raised by cash and pledges for local and outside work. Elder C. A. Burman was re-elected president of the conference. The meeting in North Dakota was held at Harvey, June 20-26. Here, as at the former meeting, daily services were conducted in three different languages. The larger number present were our German brethren, the most of whom came to the meeting by private conveyance. Over two hundred horses were employed and about one hundred and fifty wagons and carriages to bring our17brethren and sisters to the meeting. Some of these came from one to two hundred miles. The attendance from Harvey was very good. Before the meeting closed, fifteen were baptized. About fifteen hundred dollars was raised in cash and pledges for home and outside work. This, as in South Dakota, was about equally divided between the State industrial school and the General Conference work. Elders Farnsworth, recently from Australia, and Anderson, from Africa, added much in the efforts made at these meetings to help our brethren to look upon the wide world as our field of labor. Elder John Walker was re-elected president of the conference. At Canton, S. D., also at Harvey, N. D., laborers were left to follow up the interest. Eternity alone can tell the results of these annual camp-meetings. Our brethren should seek to make the most of these gatherings by means of the press and all other agencies to reach the people who know not the truth for this time. Our brethren returned to their homes with courage and increased faith in the message God has given this people for the world.