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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 25, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 14.

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MAINE CAMP-MEETING.

By James White

The Maine State annual Conference and camp-meeting were held at Waterville, Me., Sept. 4-9. The grounds were pleasant, the weather generally fine, and the meeting from first to last, good. There was a larger attendance of brethren and sisters on the ground than at any previous camp-meeting in Maine. There were forty family tents, besides the two congregation tents. The Sabbath-school and the services on the Sabbath were as interesting as those of other camp-meetings.
Eld. Butler was present, ready to lift at the wheel of every good work. W. C. White assisted in the Sabbath-school and temperance movements, and the tract and missionary work. Elders Goodrich, Weber and Hersum, of the Maine Conference, were present, and did good service as laborers in public, and in the family tents.
On Sunday the crowd numbered two or three thousand. In the morning we addressed the people, setting before them some of the reasons of our faith and hope. In the afternoon Mrs. White spoke to an increased congregation, on the theme of Christian temperance, in her usual earnest and impressive manner. The services of the day left a friendly feeling upon the minds of those who heard, and kindled the fire of hope, faith and good cheer in the minds and hearts of the brethren.
The business session of the Maine Conference passed off in a harmonious and Christian manner. The particulars of the business meetings are given in another column. The Maine Conference was ready with a tithe of the tithe of their increase for the General Conference, amounting to $111.
The brethren came up to the temperance work nobly. Up to near the time of the close of the meeting, 182 had signed the pledge.
In company with Mrs. W. and our children we took a few spare days before and at the close of the Maine camp-meeting to visit those relatives who did not meet us at the meeting. These flying visits were pleasant, and we trust profitable, notwithstanding their brevity. Closing with a night at South Hampton, N. H., with a brother who is a regular Baptist minister, we promised ourselves a month in Maine in the summer of 1880, when we hope to hold a general meeting in Aroostook county. J. W.