p. 17 | The Beatrice (Neb.) Camp-Meeting by A. T. Robinson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 13, 1906

The Beatrice (Neb.) Camp-Meeting

By A. T. Robinson

This meeting was held, according to appointment, on the Chautauqua grounds, beginning Friday evening, August 17, and closing Sunday evening, August 26. This meeting being in District 1, in which the large churches of College View and Lincoln are located, we felt somewhat disappointed that the attendance was not so large as we had looked for. There were hardly more than one hundred of our people encamped on the ground.

Elders Daniells and Russell and Professor Lewis were with us two days, on their way from the Kansas to the Colorado camp-meeting. Of our own conference ministers there were present Elders E. A. Curtis, Charles Thompson, C. A. Beeson, O. E. Jones, and the writer. Prof. M. D. Mattson was also present, and conducted daily Bible studies at 10:30 A. M.

Brother E. E. Farnsworth was in attendance through the entire meeting, and worked untiringly in the interest of the young people's work. His labors were especially blessed of God.

The Bible studies conducted by Professor Mattson and others proved a source of great blessing, and resulted in deep searching of heart and an intelligent laying hold of spiritual life and power. No special revival services were held, but the results of the work upon the hearts of the people were manifest all through the meeting, and on the closing Sunday morning twenty-eight willing souls were led down into a watery grave and buried with their Lord in baptism. It was a very touching scene to witness nearly one fourth of the people present going forward in this sacred rite.

Nothing stirred the hearts of the people more than did the three earnest talks given by Elder Daniells on the progress of the work throughout the world. During one of these talks, he pointed out on the missionary map of the world that Greenland is the only country in the Western hemisphere where our work has not been opened. At this point in his address he was interrupted by the introduction of a resolution, recommending that the Nebraska Conference Committee appropriate from their surplus tithes the sum of fifteen hundred dollars to be used by the Mission Board in assisting to establish our work in Greenland. This appropriation, added to what was recommended at the Fremont and Aurora meetings, makes five thousand dollars that has thus far been appropriated to the Mission Board this season. We still have one more camp-meeting, to be held at Gothenburg, and we are sure the brethren in the western part of the State will feel that they have a right to be heard in this matter also.

On the closing day of the Beatrice meeting, nearly all present bore testimony to the effect that it was one of the best camp-meetings, and many said the very best one, they had ever attended. Among those baptized were a goodly number of young people who had given their hearts to the Lord for the first time.

The ground on which the meeting was held was quite a long distance from the city, and the attendance from the outside was not so large as it had been at the Fremont and Aurora meetings.

We believe the memory of the Beatrice camp-meeting will long be cherished by those who were privileged to be in attendance. A. T. ROBINSON.