North Dakota Camp-Meetings by JOHN G. WALKER

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 19, 1906

North Dakota Camp-Meetings

By JOHN G. WALKER

THREE very successful camp-meetings have just been held in North Dakota,—two in English at Rock Lake and Stanley, and one in German at Bowden. The two former were attended by about two hundred of our isolated English and Scandinavian brethren and sisters in the northeastern and northwestern parts of the State, and the latter by over four hundred of our brethren of the German churches. A kind, sympathetic spirit characterized the meetings; and the people showed their spirituality and their interest in the truth by their liberality in giving of their means to the cause. Many of them sacrificed for the advancement of the message. The amount donated by our brethren for home work and for missions outside our own field was over thirty-nine hundred dollars. This does not include the tithe paid to our treasurer during the camp-meetings.

We were glad to have the services of Elders R. A. Underwood, G. F. Haffner, V. Leer, C. J. Kunkel, L. H. Christian, Brethren P. T. Magan, J. S. James, and O. J. Graf, and Sister Bessie L. Shaw, to the latter of whom our brethren donated in cash and pledges over fourteen hundred dollars for the work in India.

More than one hundred and sixty young people between the ages of thirteen and twenty-five attended the meetings, and many of these gave their hearts to God for the first time, and others renewed their covenant with him.

Over thirty were baptized, and twenty others expressed their desire to be baptized at their home churches.

There was an outside interest at all the meetings, and especially was this true, at Rock Lake, where almost the whole village came out to hear the truth.

We are thankful for the help we received from Brother Magan, who attended both of the English meetings, and whose plain, pointed talks showed a depth to the message that has created in the minds of many not of our faith an interest to hear the Word of God.

JOHN G. WALKER.