MORDEN (MANITOBA) CAMP-MEETING.
By L. A. Hoopes
THE annual camp-meeting of this mission field was held at Morden, June 28 to July 8, 1900. The camp was in a beautiful little grove adjoining the city. Morden is a city of about eighteen hundred inhabitants. The camp consisted of two hundred persons, occupying forty family tents. Besides, there were about fifty persons who occupied rooms outside the camp. Services were conducted in both the English and German languages, for both the grown people and the children. Besides the laborers of the mission field, there were present, for the English work, Elders J. H. Morrison and B. G. Wilkinson, and the writer; and for the German, Elders E. Loeppke and J. J. Graf. All phases of the message for this time received some attention at this meeting. All seemed to be deeply interested in every department. Considering the new field, and the shortness of this year's crops, the brethren did well to take up offerings. The Sabbath-school and First-day offerings for foreign missions amounted to about thirty dollars. The subject of the book, “Parables of Jesus,” was presented, and two hundred copies were sold. The brethren then raised in money and pledges enough to purchase another tent, so that two tents can be in the field this summer. The camp-meeting was conducted in such a way that when the meeting closed, the receipts for rent of tents, dining-tent, etc., exceeded the expenditures by a few dollars. Professor Wilkinson spent considerable time in speaking and answering questions on the educational work, both for the home and for the college. The canvassing work received special attention. The general agent of the dominion, J. H. Watson, of Toronto, was present. There are now nine agents on the list. An effort will be made to have a school for the canvassers during the cold winter months. Besides the workers who are under the pay of the Conference, other young persons are being encouraged to spend some time with the tent companies, where they can receive instruction in Bible-reading work, canvassing, and various parts of the message. Three intelligent young women who were at this meeting are now engaged in this work. From the first, the spiritual interest of the meeting was good. Three persons declared their intentions to observe all the commandments, and seven followed their Lord in baptism. When the camp-meeting closed, a strong tent company was left in the city to develop the interest awakened. Services will be conducted in both German and English. On the whole, it was one of the most refreshing camp-meetings I have attended. While the enemy worked hard to defeat us, the Lord manifested himself ready to help in every time of need.
L. A. HOOPES.