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The Gothenburg (Neb.) Camp-Meeting

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Oct 4, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 40.

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The Gothenburg (Neb.) Camp-Meeting

By Chas. Thompson

This meeting was held from August 31 to September 9. Twenty-one family tents, two pavilions, a book tent, and a dining tent were pitched upon the grounds. About seventy of our people were encamped, while a number lived close enough to attend quite regularly from their homes.
Meetings were held daily in the English and Scandinavian languages. The laborers present were Elders A. T. Robinson, M. D. Mattson, L. E. Johnson, and the writer, in English, and Elders L. Johnson, S. Mortenson, and August Anderson, in Scandinavian.
Prof. E. E. Farnsworth labored untiringly and successfully for the youth and children.
Prof. C. C. Lewis, of Union College, was present one day, and gave the educational work a lift.
The meeting was characterized throughout by the Spirit of the Lord. The messages were of a personal nature, and a heart-searching work was done.
The attendance of those not of our faith was good, and the evenings were occasions when the distinctive points that make us a people were dwelt upon with excellent impressions.
One thing that is encouraging to report from all the camp-meetings I have attended is the loyalty of the rank and file of our people to this message, especially to the spirit of prophecy. In nearly every home tracts are found that have been written and sent out for the purpose of unsettling the people’s faith in this precious gift, but I know of no one who is unsettled, and many have been and are studying the Testimonies who never studied them before. Thus it is written, “We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.”
On Wednesday, September 5, a missionary meeting was held, when the work in distant lands was considered.
At the close of this meeting a resolution was adopted asking the conference committee to appropriate from the surplus tithe fifteen hundred dollars, to be used by the Mission Board in the prosecution of the work in needy fields. After the vote a brother asked the privilege of adding to the sum five hundred dollars, which makes two thousand dollars from this little meeting, and $7,093 from the conference during its camp-meeting series, for foreign mission work.
Some gave their hearts to God at this meeting for the first time. All were strengthened and encouraged, and the universal testimony was that it was good to be present. CHAS. THOMPSON.