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OUR CAMP-MEETING

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 30, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 19.

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OUR CAMP-MEETING.

By Joseph Clarke

The camp-meeting held at Windsor, Henry Co., Mo., Oct. 9-13, was a good and profitable meeting. The interest increased to the close. Eld. Geo. J. Butler labored hard and with much love and plainness to arouse the church to action, and a deep feeling of interest in the word spoken was manifest. Elds. Wood and Chaffee greatly aided in the preaching of the word. The absence of Bro. and Sr. White was deeply felt; but all seemed inclined to do what they could, and the good, uniting influence of the Holy Spirit was felt in every meeting.
The testimony sent to the Missouri Conference at this meeting was very much to the point. It was close, searching, and clear; and nearly all accepted it in humility and contrition of heart. The ministers in this State took an especial interest in the testimony, and expressed a determination to go forward in the pathway so clearly laid out. The model Sabbath-school was organized by Bro. N. W. Allee, and was a very interesting feature of the meeting.
There were about seventeen family tents on the ground, and quite a number of families in the old circular tent; some lodged in covered wagons, and others occupied rooms in Windsor, only about one-third of a mile from the camp. The people of the town and vicinity were very kind and obliging.
The prominent place given in Eld. Butler's discourses to the influences of the Holy Spirit in the great work of elevating the Christian character, is worthy of special mention. It was shown and proven from the word of God and the history and experience of the church, that without the influence of the Holy Spirit the ablest efforts of men are vain and abortive, while with the aid of this Spirit all that is good and desirable may be accomplished. It was observed that in the testimonies of the brethren and sisters this principle had a place; a universal desire was expressed to obtain a greater measure of the Holy Spirit, and to drink more deeply into the spirit of this work.
JOSEPH CLARKE.