p. 650 | ALABAMA CAMP-MEETING by R. M. Kilgore

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 22, 1901

ALABAMA CAMP-MEETING.

By R. M. Kilgore

This meeting was held at Anniston, September 20-30. There were but few of our people present. The attendance from without was good, and the interest was such that after-meetings were planned, and the tent still stands, and the work continues with a good corps of laborers.

The laborers during the camp-meeting were Profs. J. E. Tenney and B. E. Nicola, Brother A. F. Harrison, the local workers, and the writer. Sister Nellie Patchen, assisted by C. J. Dart, conducted the children's meetings.

The Conference was organized with two hundred members. The departments were placed in charge of those who were already in the employ of the Southern Union Conference, so no additional helpers were engaged for the present. In all the departments it was decided to adhere strictly to the cash system. The plan of asking the members to deposit with their church treasurer in advance of their orders for periodicals and other supplies, and the churches to deposit with the State Treasurer, who can then keep a deposit with the publishing houses, was adopted, and met with general favor. If this is carried out, the members, the churches, the States, and publishing houses will “owe no man anything.”

This young Conference, as well as the others that were recently organized, entered upon its work with full purpose to make the most of the facilities at hand, and push the battle to the gate. Elder W. L. McNeely was elected President of the Conference, with his office at Birmingham. He has the full confidence and support of all the workers and members in the State.

This completes the organization of the Southern States into Conferences, making eight in all. The distribution of the responsibilities attending the work in these States among so many, is as it should be. It was according to the plain instruction given by the Lord. There was wisdom in doing this, and good results are already seen. God is blessing those who are taking up the burdens in these fields. The members and churches are rallying around these men, and will sustain them. All, with willing hearts and minds, enter upon the work in their respective fields, making an aggressive movement against our common enemy.

We are happy to be again associated with the workers and people of the Southern field. We rejoice in the great change in the condition of things since our first entrance upon the work in the South, twenty-four years ago. The Lord has wrought, and His name is to be praised. R. M. KILGORE.