Michigan Camp-meeting by James White

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 27, 1878

Michigan Camp-meeting.

By James White

It is suggested by the President of the Michigan Conference that there should be three camp-meetings in the State the present season. The General Conference will doubtless be held at the Lansing camp-meeting, which will be the greatest gathering of the three. At that meeting will be held the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Sanitarium, the Publishing Association, and the College. That meeting will be the most important, as it will be the greatest gathering. Near Grand Rapids is thought to be a place of importance, where the second camp-meeting can be held. For the third we suggest that a locality be selected at or near Battle Creek, or farther East. Jackson is the second great railroad center in the State, and would be an excellent place. These are only suggestions made for the consideration of the camp-meeting committee and the ministers and officers of the Conference.

We have become satisfied that our Lansing camp-meeting for the past two years has been too large. As far as social meetings are concerned, three or four hundred persons are as many as can be profitably gathered together. We have usually divided those in camp into three or four meetings.

Again, by placing our camp-meetings at different points we get the truth before a larger number of people. It is said that the people of Lansing are far more interested in our camp-meeting this the third year than they have been the two former years. This is well; but having heard two years without embracing the message, it is very doubtful whether they would receive it the present year. It would therefore seem highly probable that the camp-meeting would do more in awakening a new interest and in bringing the people to a knowledge of the truth to hold it at different points in the State.

JAMES WHITE.