p. 28 | CAMP-MEETING AT SALEM, OREGON

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1879

CAMP-MEETING AT SALEM, OREGON.

By Stephen Nelson Haskell

This meeting convened according to appointment, and was held in the same grove that was occupied by our brethren last year. The grounds had been enlarged, and were tastefully arranged.

From commencement to close, the blessing of God rested upon this meeting. The attendance was not so large as at Walla Walla, but the brethren this side the Cascade Mountains were well represented. Two brethren walked eighty miles to attend the meeting. Although foot-sore and much wearied, at our first social meeting their testimony was that they had already been paid for coming. One brother drove his ox team forty miles.

There were twenty-three tents on the ground, which, in addition to those at Walla Walla, made between fifty and sixty this present season in this Conference.

No regular business meetings were held here; yet important steps were taken, which, if carried out, will give the cause in this part of the Conference an impetus to the missionary work, and also in Sabbath-school enterprise. A very interesting Sabbath-school was held Sabbath morning. All of the meetings were spiritual, and characterized by much interest. On Sunday, about one thousand intelligent people were present, and listened with marked attention to three discourses. Much interest was taken in the temperance movement. Some who had previously signed the anti rum and tobacco pledge, signed the teetotal pledge at this meeting.

We left the camp-ground Tuesday about 1 P. M., after a very precious season of prayer with Eld. Van Horn and wife, Eld. Jones and wife, and two brethren who remained to assist in clearing the ground. S. N. HASKELL.