LUCAS CAMP-MEETING by H. Grant

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 12, 1879

LUCAS CAMP-MEETING.

By H. Grant

We arrived at the Lucas camp-ground May 27. This meeting was held in the interest of Dist. No. 5, where Bro. and Sr. S. Fulton have been laboring the past year and a half. The Lord has helped them to build up the cause in this new field, and it is now in a good condition, fifty or seventy-five having embraced the truth under their labors. The roads were rough and miry, owing to the heavy rains, which kept a few from attending whom we had expected. We found quite a company from the vicinity of Durand, Buffalo Co., who were strangers to us; but we soon found they were not strangers to the covenant of grace. Nearly seventy-five were camped on the ground. Satan seemed to come in with mighty power to hinder the meeting; but earnest prayers had ascended in its behalf, and the Lord suffered him not to prevail.

The meeting opened on time with a good spirit from the first. Thursday night we had a storm so terrible that our tents could not protect us. But next morning all appeared cheerful in spite of the cold and wet, and went to work with a will to prepare for the comfort of those who were yet to come. Six ministers were in attendance, and all felt that the preaching was meat in due season. Such an earnest, teachable spirit, and such perfect union and peace, I never saw during an entire meeting. Tears flowed freely, tears of joy for present blessing, and of sorrow in remembrance of past trials.

Our social meetings were indeed a feast. One aged brother and sister who came nearly forty miles said, “We heard one sermon from Bro. Sanborn nineteen years ago, and we had a few tracts, and that is all. We have been alone—have had no help—yet we pressed on. We heard of this meeting and prayed for its success, and now through the providence of God we are here. We were starving, but now we have a feast.”

Many who had attended our large camp-meetings testified that at no other meeting had they seemed so much like one family. Satan seemed to come up and prowl around us, but we were protected. The last night, about 2 o’clock, six guns were fired in quick succession, which awoke all the camp. No one was hurt, but in the morning it was found that about forty buck shot had been fired through the new top of our preaching tent. Surely the wrath of the dragon is stirred. The meeting closed Tuesday morning, June 3. We are much pleased with its success, and thankful for the uniform kindness and love shown us. H. GRANT.