The Louisiana Camp-Meeting by K. C. Russell

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 6, 1906

The Louisiana Camp-Meeting

By K. C. Russell

I DID not reach this meeting until it was well advanced. It was held at Lake Arthur, from July 23 to August 2. This place is located about three hundred miles west of New Orleans. The meeting was held in a beautiful grove on the edge of the town, Lake Arthur, and near a lake by the same name. The attendance of our people at this meeting was considered excellent. There was also a large attendance from the city and surrounding country at each evening service when the weather permitted.

From the first, this camp-meeting was characterized by much of the Holy Spirit’s power. The last Sabbath of the meeting was a day which will not be forgotten by those in attendance, owing to the manifestation of the Spirit’s power in the converting of men and women to the gospel and in reclaiming backsliders. In the afternoon the rite of baptism was administered to twenty-one willing candidates in the lake near the camp-grounds, at which place a large number of citizens gathered to witness the scene. The weather during this service, and also during the other public meetings, was most favorable.

All departments of the work were considered, and a live interest was manifested in the same. There was also a liberal response by our people to the various calls for funds in the interests of the different phases of our work, which were made from time to time during the meeting.

Prof. J. E. Tenney, Brother O. R. Staines, and the writer remained until the close of this meeting. The Lord greatly blessed these brethren in presenting the principles of Christian education, and the great needs of the institutions which they represented.

Elder S. B. Horton, the president of the Louisiana Conference, accompanied me to New Orleans on my return. My visit in this important city in the South was a most interesting and profitable one, as it enabled me to grasp the possibilities there are in extending the precious gospel to the citizens of this city. It is believed that New Orleans is destined to become the greater New York of the Southern cities when the Panama Canal is completed, as it will be the most natural and convenient point to reach the United States from there.

Certainly the time has come when our work in this city should be taken hold of with earnestness and zeal. Our prayer is that the Lord may greatly bless in the work of extending the truth to the many towns in Louisiana.

K. C. RUSSELL.