LOUP CITY, NEB., CAMP-MEETING.
By A. T. Robinson
LOUP CITY is situated on the Middle Loup River, and has a population of a little over 1,000. We have a small company of faithful brethren and sisters at this place, whose lives are a testimony to the saving power of the message for our time. They have a neat house of worship in which Sabbath services are regularly held. The camp-meeting was located on a beautiful plot of ground in the eastern edge of the town. The meeting opened Wednesday evening, June 1, and continued until Sunday evening, June 12. During the first days of the meeting it rained a good deal of the time. This prevented a great number of our brethren and sisters, who would have come with teams, from doing so, and the number of those encamped on the ground was not large. The attendance of the people of the town was fairly good every night, and a good impression is left on their minds. Elders Daniel Nettleton and L. E. Johnson, Prof. C. C. Lewis, Dr. W. A. George, and the writer, were the speakers in attendance. The preaching13which was made exceedingly practical, dealt largely with the great living issues of the message which makes us a distinct and separate denomination. Several revival services were held, when the deep movings of God's Holy Spirit rested down upon the people. Several persons gave their hearts to the Lord, and fully embraced the truth as presented. On the closing day of the meeting, a large concourse of people assembled on the banks of the river, where eight persons followed the example of the Saviour in the rite of baptism. It was a beautiful and impressive ceremony. Altho the number of our people present was small, they responded nobly to the call to defray the expenses of the meeting. $101.64 was pledged to different conference funds. One feature of this camp-meeting is worthy of special mention. Twice during the week the whole camp was organized into a missionary band, and, led by the president of the conference and the superintendent of the district, went out visiting the people. Thus every family in the town were twice visited, and invited to the meetings, and had reading matter left in their homes. If we should adopt the plan of holding many such small, comparatively inexpensive camp-meetings, organizing them into a corps of workers' meetings to reach the people, we could thus stir these smaller towns with the message in a few days' time. A. T. ROBINSON.