Ohio Camp-Meeting by I. D. Van Horn

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 6, 1883

Ohio Camp-Meeting.

By I. D. Van Horn

This meeting is now just past. In several respects it was a good meeting; in others it might have been better. The business of the Conference, Tract and Missionary Society, and other associations, was done with dispatch and with harmony of feeling. The reports from the treasurers of the Conference, and Tract and Missionary Society, showed prosperity in both branches of the work.

The past year's work has brought quite a number into the truth, and I think four new churches were admitted into the Conference. The five ordained ministers, two licentiates, and seven or eight colporteurs, seem to be men of promise, and able to do effective labor.

Those who did the preaching had good freedom, and such subjects were chosen as were well calculated to lift the standard of devotion and interest in the cause to a higher plane. But from some cause the interest in the social meetings, and the seasons for seeking God, was not as deep and thorough as we had hoped to see. On the Sabbath there was a general move forward by upwards of one hundred, and, after a season of prayer, the work was carried on in the districts in the camp, with some success. This was taken up again on Monday, and twenty-four candidates came forward for baptism. The attendance on Sunday was quite large, coming up to about a thousand. Good order prevailed, and some success was made in canvassing for our periodicals.

The effort made to-day for the different missions in Europe, and for the International Tract Society, was successful to the amount of nearly $2,000. On the whole this meeting gave courage and hope to many hearts, and they went home with new determinations to keep pace with the advancing message. I. D. VAN HORN.

Aug. 21, 1883.