NOTES FROM THE NORWAY CAMP-GROUND.
By D. A. Robinson
THE camp-meeting here opened last evening with an attendance from the outside of about three hundred. This is the first camp-meeting ever held in Europe, and of course is a novel affair for the people here. The camp is located at Moss, a village of eight thousand inhabitants. This place is six Norwegian or forty-two English miles from Christiania, where our office of publication for this country is located. The encampment is on an island, which is about four miles long and three miles wide. This island was formerly connected with the main-land, but about forty years ago a channel was cut across a narrow neck of land, thus separating it from the main-land. Through this channel vessels now pass. A bridge, however, still connects the island with the main-land. Elders Haskell and Waggoner just from America are here; Sister White, Elder Matteson, and others came this afternoon from Denmark, and Elders White and Whitney are expected from Germany soon. Elder Conradi, with whose imprisonment in Russia the readers of the SIGNS are familiar, is here also. It seems somewhat novel to attend a camp-meeting and go through the evening service410without artificial lights, but there is no necessity for them here at this season of the year; for the sun does not set till after nine o'clock, and the twilight continues much longer than in America. On a clear night one can easily read the SIGNS by the twilight as late as half past ten o'clock. The truth has evidently come to stay in Norway, and already there are a goodly number rejoicing in it. Camp-meeting will mark a new era in the work here, and will no doubt be a source of strength to the cause in this part of the great harvest field.