p. 686 | INDIANA | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 23, 1900

INDIANA

At the State Conference held in Alexandria in connection with the general camp-meeting one year ago last August, it was decided to hold several camp-meetings in the State during the present year. It was also voted not to hold the Conference in connection with any of these meetings, but to hold it later on, in Indianapolis. In the summer, however, the president of the General Conference, in connection with the district superintendent, decided that it would be best for us to hold the Conference in connection with our last camp-meeting; and in harmony with this advice it was held in connection with the Muncie meeting, September 13–23. A report of the work done in the State, from the time of the Alexandria meeting up to September 1 of the present year, was given in the president's report to the Conference.

Including a four-days' meeting held on the fair grounds at Kendallville, there were four camp-meetings held in the Conference during the summer, all of which were profitable occasions, and were well attended, both by our own people and by those not of our faith. At Sullivan, and most of the time at Muncie, the outside attendance was large. The manifestation of the Spirit of God was marked at all these meetings, but not so fully at Muncie as at the others. At Muncie the work is being continued by an efficient corps of workers, and they report a good interest, and that the Lord is drawing very near to them in the work. Already they have a Sabbath-school of fifty members, and several have accepted the faith. Muncie is almost entirely a new field, having received no labor, except a little canvassing, and the efforts of a Bible worker who was there for a few weeks. Elder Stanley writes that the power of God is wondrously manifest in the presentation of the truth, and in the acceptance of it by the people. For all this we say, Praise the Lord.

A corps of workers has also been sent to Sullivan, to develop the interest created during the camp-meeting held there. There has hardly been time yet for them to make a report of their work, but we believe that, with the Lord's blessing, their labor will be successful.

The Lord has greatly blessed the efforts of the Conference laborers. At the end of each month we receive a report of the work of each laborer; and during the year these reports show four hundred and twelve accessions to the faith, nearly three hundred of whom have united with the different churches of the Conference. Five new churches were admitted to the Conference at its last session; and during the year a little more than three thousand dollars was paid on the State indebtedness. If, in the remaining months of 1900, the brethren will be as faithful in paying what they have pledged to pay by the month, as they have been during the months gone by, another thousand dollars will be paid this year.

(Concluded on page 687 of this number.)