Visitors at Our Camp-Meeting.
By Editor
THERE is, perhaps, no city in the United States where there is more going on to attract the attention of the people, and to amuse them, than there is in San Francisco. Places of amusement in the city are open every day and night in the week, throughout the year. More than this, the places of resort within easy distance of the city are so numerous, and the weather in summer is so settled, that camp-life is no novelty. Camping in the mountains, or by the sea-shore, is indulged in for months by those who have leisure; and Sunday excursions and picnics constantly appeal to the working-men's love of pleasure. Under these circumstances it was scarcely to be expected that the announcement of a plain Seventh-day Adventist Camp-meeting would attract very many from the outside world. In this we were agreeably disappointed. The first Sunday there was a large crowd from Oakland and across the bay, and on the second Sunday the number was largely increased. The visitors were those who came not out of mere curiosity, but manifested an interest to hear. We attribute this interest largely to the good reports given by the newspapers. Everybody in California reads the newspapers, and people who crossed the bay said that the principal topic of conversation on the ferry-boats and street-cars was the camp-meeting—the doctrines preached, and the good order maintained. If the meeting could have continued another week, the attendance would doubtless have been more than doubled. As it is, many who did not attend the meeting, have become acquainted, to a large degree, with what our people believe and what they are doing. At the last meeting on the ground, Tuesday morning, the following was adopted by unanimous vote of the congregation:— Resolved, That we appreciate the courtesy of the Oakland and San Francisco papers, especially the Times, the Post, the Call, the Alta, and the Examiner, for their full and fair reports of our meeting, and that the thanks of this Conference be tendered to them for the same.