The Iowa Camp-Meeting by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 15, 1876

The Iowa Camp-Meeting.

By Uriah Smith

THIS meeting has opened as the largest and best meeting, so far, ever held in the State. There are forty tents on the ground besides the large meeting tent 50 by 70 feet, and another 60 foot tent devoted to family lodgings.

The ground is a pleasant one, at the head of 5th street, just outside the city limits of Marshalltown, Iowa. During the two days of the meeting, past, the weather has been most favorable. There are eleven ordained ministers and ten licentiates present.

A large congregation of about twelve hundred were out last evening to hear Eld. White give some of the reasons why we are Seventh-day Adventists. The most excellent attention was given.

The progress the cause has made in this State the past year is indicated by the number of new faces seen at this meeting, and especially by the many testimonies from those who have learned about these truths within the past three, six or nine months. Many testify that this is the first camp-meeting they ever attended, and that they feel abundantly repaid already by the good they have received.

BRO. and sister White arrived from the Missouri meeting on Thursday p. m., bringing a good report from that meeting, and being themselves in good health and spirits. A more full mention of the meeting will be made hereafter.

U. S.