Camp-Meetings for 1884 by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 15, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 19.

Camp-Meetings for 1884.

By Editor

KANSAS, Lawrence ............................ May 21-27 MISSOURI, SOUTHERN, Nevada .... May 29 to June 3 “ NORTHERN, Chillicothe, ............... June 5-10 NEBRASKA, Beatrice ............................. “ 5-10 UPPER COLUMBIA, Walla Walla ............ “ 5-16 PENNSYLVANIA, Emporium ................. “ 11-17 WISCONSIN, Baraboo ............................. “ 18-23 MINNESOTA, Mankato ............................ “ 19-24 NORTH PACIFIC, East Portland, (Sellwood) “ 19-30 DAKOTA, Madison ...................... June 25 to July 1 CANADA, Waterloo ............................. “ 26 to “ 1 NEW YORK, — ..................................... Aug. 14-26 NEW ENGLAND, — ..................... Aug. 20 to Sept. 2 VERMONT, — .................................... “ 29 to “ 8 MAINE, — ............................................. Sept. 4-15 GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.

Various Matters.

LAST week we promised a full report of the meeting in Healdsburg in this number. With regret we have to announce that the proceedings have not been received.

MRS. J. ELLEN FOSTER, the well-known advocate of prohibition, is laboring in California. Success to her efforts.

NEXT week we shall commence the publication of Wesley's Sermon on the "Origin, Nature, Properties, and Use of the Law." We may publish in part, as we have not room for the whole, several of Mr. Wesley's Sermons. They are good religious reading, and we can recommend them to everybody.

THE camp-meeting season is already here, and the time for vigorous work has come. We expect a large increase in our subscription list, and the directors are making preparations for the work. Besides the SIGNS we are doing much more denominational work than was ever before done in this office, and the prospects—nay, the certainty—is that it will greatly increase.

THE office of the Review and Herald has discarded its outside job work, and yet all hands are as busy as ever. Our work is fast enlarging; notwithstanding a new office is opened in England, where a paper is printed in our own language, our offices in the United States are fast approaching the point where all our facilities, and these much increased, will be needed to do our own work. "Take courage, fellow pilgrims."

WE have just received another pamphlet on the "Christian Sabbath," another California production. From certain remarks in it we judge that the writer is a Methodist, though he does not give any certain clue to his denominational identity. One thing is noticeable: he contradicts the positions of Mr. Woodward on the most material points, and thus presents another instance of a house divided against itself. It is poorly written, and very poorly gotten up, and, as the other California Sunday books, promises to have a brief run, with little or no influence. It misrepresents the Greek of mian sabbatone as badly as did the writer noticed in this week's SIGNS.

WANT of time alone has prevented our getting out a collation of the views of the advocates of Sunday and opposers of the Sabbath of the Lord. A general convention of Sunday advocates would present a spectacle of unusual interest. The confusion among the builders at Babel would appear insignificant by comparison. We love to see a multiplicity of Sunday arguments produced, because it is not possible for the advocates of such an error to agree, and the more they write the more people will see and realize the weakness of their cause, and the more readily will they accept the truth.

THE Los Angeles camp-meeting is now in progress. At the time of closing our paper it is too early to receive any report from it. In consequence of heavy rains in April the season is late, and the people are mostly very busy, and the meeting may be a small one; but that is no reason why it shall not be a good one. We earnestly hope that those who have newly come to the faith in Southern California will attend this meeting. They need the experience which it will give them; they cannot afford to lose it. The meeting closes May 19.

THE friends in Oregon have good notice and plenty of time to prepare to attend their camp-meeting beginning June 19, and we hope that every Seventh-day Adventist will attend, and urge others to go with them. The "Council" will be an important occasion, and we trust the work may be established on a better footing in those northern Conferences than it has been heretofore. Elders Corliss and Jones are holding a tent-meeting in the city of Walla Walla, preparatory to the camp-meeting there, which begins June 5.

To J. O.—We believe the Conference Constitutions of all the States are uniform on the point of representation. Each church of twenty members or less, has one delegate; and a delegate for each additional fifteen members. No officers of the Conference are members having a right to vote by virtue of their positions, except the Conference Committee. Churches should always elect their delegates in good season. It is customary to invite visiting brethren and laborers to a place in the meeting, but it gives them no right to vote.

BUILDING has begun in Oakland, and as we have had much rain, and the prospects for good crops are favorable, we may expect much building will be done. In 1875 the work of building was overdone in this city, and the houses never got well filled until the past winter. Then, for the first time in nine years, the signs "To Let," became scarce, and everything betokens a busy season. The painters have made an early "strike," which indicates that there will be a large immigration of mechanics.

PROF. O. S. FOWLER, one of the pioneers in the cause of phrenology in America, is in Oakland, where he will remain until May 20. Prof. Fowler is over seventy-four years of age; he is a man of much experience and culture; and many will no doubt improve this opportunity to hear him; an opportunity which they will never have again.