Camp-Meeting Again by I. D. Van Horn

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 23, 1878

Camp-Meeting Again.

By I. D. Van Horn

The way is all open now, and favorably too, for our camp-meeting in Oregon. Yesterday I received a letter from the secretary of the O. S. N. Co., Portland, Oregon, granting the privilege to all coming to our meeting over their lines of travel, to return free.

The O. & C. R. R. Co. have granted the same privilege, as before published in the Signs, and they will also stop their regular trains at the camp-ground during the meeting. What could we ask more than this? With these privileges granted us, there should be a general turnout of our people. Who will refuse to come now?

The following directions should be strictly observed by all coming on the railroad to the meeting: All persons coming from Portland and intermediate stations should buy tickets to Salem, and all coming from stations south of Salem should buy tickets to Brook’s station. As the camp-ground is about half way between Salem and Brook’s, all will see the necessity of strictly adhering to these directions.

All coming to the meeting should bring bedding sufficient for their own convenience, so they can be comfortable. I have ordered one dozen camping tents which will be pitched on the ground ready for those to occupy who wish to rent or purchase.

There will be a store and restaurant kept on the ground where all can get provisions at a reasonable rate while the meeting lasts. Board can be had as reasonable as at any hotel. There will also be hay for teams.

We shall have in a book stand on the ground a good supply of all our publications where all can purchase books and tracts as they may desire. Any persons wishing to subscribe for our periodicals, the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Advent Review, Health Reformer, and Youth’s Instructor, can have the privilege at the book stand. And all who are now taking any of these papers whose time of subscription is out or nearly out can have the privilege of renewing, and should come prepared to do so.

Now let us have as full an attendance at our first camp-meeting as possible. Let us come together prepared to work for the Lord, for the advancement of his cause in this Conference, and for one another’s good. Let us begin in earnest to sound out the warning notes of the third angel’s message in this new field where so little has yet been done. Come to the meeting praying for the revival of the work and power of God among us. Pray that the Lord may meet with us, and that the angels of the Lord may encamp round about us.

With this preparation and help our meeting will be a success. Much good will be accomplished, and all return to their homes and fields of labor with renewed strength and earnestness.

I. D. VAN HORN.

Salem, Oregon, May 16, 1878.