The Missouri Camp-Meeting by K. C. Russell

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 26, 1907

The Missouri Camp-Meeting

By K. C. Russell

This meeting was held at Eldon, Mo., August 8-18, in a beautiful grove about a mile from the town. The attendance of our people was not large. The evening services were well attended by the citizens of Eldon, and a lively interest was manifested on the part of some.

The lines of truth presented were substantially the same as are usually given at our State camp-meetings, which embraced a discussion on all the various departments of the cause. Much emphasis was placed on the important subject of the spirit of prophecy and on that of organization.

The last Sabbath of the meeting was a remarkable one, owing to the manifestation of the Holy Spirit's power in converting precious souls to the truth and in reclaiming those who were backslidden.

Many who were in attendance said that this was the best meeting they ever

attended, and I feel confident that better days are in store for the Missouri Conference, if the principles which the people pledged to live out by the grace of God are maintained in their daily lives.

Elder D. U. Hale was unanimously elected president of this conference. Our brethren and sisters will remember Brother Hale, as he has labored as a missionary on the western coast of Africa, and also in South America.

A substantial interest was manifested in our foreign work, as was indicated by the action of the conference in voting one thousand dollars of its surplus tithe to the foreign mission work. Nearly four thousand dollars was raised on the $5,000 fund, one hundred and seventeen dollars for the work among the blind people of the United States, and the Sabbath offering to foreign missions was excellent.

The laborers in attendance, besides the local conference workers, were Elder R. C. Porter, president of the Southwestern Union Conference; Elder E. T. Russell, president of the Central Union Conference; Prof. C. C. Lewis, president of Union College; Elder H. F. Graf, of Brazil, South America; Prof. B. G. Wilkinson, of the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary; C. L. Benson, assistant secretary of the Central Union Conference; and the writer. Elder E. A. Merrill was left to follow up the interest in Eldon, which was awakened as a result of the camp-meeting.

We regret to say that Elder H. M. Stewart, the former president of the Missouri Conference, was taken sick during the meeting, and was able to attend only a few of the services. We trust that the Lord may restore him to health, and thus he be enabled to join in the proclamation of the third angel's message throughout the important State of Missouri. K. C. RUSSELL.