A SUCCESSFUL CAMP-MEETING.
By C. P. Bollman
A most successful camp-meeting for the colored people has just closed at Edgefield Junction, Tenn. The location of the camp was near the Cumberland River, ten miles above Nashville. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Tennessee River Conference and the Southern Missionary Society. The camp-meeting proper lasted for only five days, ending on Sunday night, October 20, but the interest developed is such that two colored laborers, Elder Barry and Brother Warnick, remain to continue the work. Preaching services will be held evenings and on Sundays, and the people will be visited in their homes. This is the second meeting of the kind ever held, so far as the writer is aware, and it was not undertaken without some misgivings. But the circumstances seemed to demand that such a meeting should be held, and it was accordingly decided upon, believing that God would bless the effort. The meeting was a grand success. It is candidly believed that it marks the beginning of better days for the work among the colored people in Nashville and vicinity. Elder Kilgore was present, and assisted in the meeting from Friday noon until the close. Elder White was also present a part of the time. Elder Stone, president of the Tennessee River Conference, was engaged in a tent effort in Franklin, Ky., which he could not leave, but the vice-president, Elder Burrow, was present during the entire meeting, and rendered excellent service, which I am sure the colored brethren greatly appreciated. Elder Halladay also assisted in the meeting. A noticeable feature of the meeting was the presence of quite a number of white people at nearly every service. In the evenings nearly one third of those present were whites. The tent was well filled every night except that on which the meeting was opened. Brethren, the Lord is going out before us. Let every lover of present truth rejoice that this is so, and pray “the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into His harvest.”