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

North Dakota Camp-Meeting

By GEO. F. ENOCH.

A SMALL camp-meeting for the believers in the northeastern part of North Dakota was held at Devils Lake, July 9-14. Beautiful for location by the side of the Chautauqua grounds, everything was auspicious for a blessed seeking of God together. From the first, the keynote, “The advent message to all the world in this generation,” was struck. There was hearty response on the part of all present.

Elder Reppe, of Minnesota, and the writer were present, in addition to the conference workers. The morning social meetings were seasons of refreshing. The Sabbath was a most blessed day. The Lord drew graciously near, and our hearts were melted with the love of God. Almost every one present took part in the service. Jesus came to the feast. We supped with him and he with us, we confessing our sins, he drawing near with his cleansing, healing power. The shout of victory was heard in the camp. Fathers and mothers in Israel, whose hair had become gray in the third angel’s message, with tears in their voices thanked God for what they saw and heard. The young reconsecrated themselves to God.

There were but eighty-six, including children, present at the Sabbath-school; yet when the needs of the world-wide field were presented in the power of the Holy Spirit, over nine hundred dollars was raised in cash and pledges to meet the call of the hour, and this after nearly six hundred had been pledged for the home work. But this was not the greatest donation. The young men and women present solemnly pledged their lives to the Master, consecrating their

talents and all the possibilities God had yet wrapped up in their strong young minds and bodies to him for the finishing of the work. Parents gave their children to God for service. A large number promised that hereafter they would farm for the finishing of the work, and not for selfish or worldly advancement, and all arose and pledged themselves according to their several ability to stand loyally by this cause and message and to co-operate with God for the finishing of the work.

Thus the blessed scenes of the other camp-meetings were reproduced here. From the seven camp-meetings attended this season by the writer, the people have returned home with a spirit of self-denial and a willingness to bear daily the cross that speaks volumes for the success of the message in the days to come. GEO. F. ENOCH.