Northern Missouri Camp-Meeting.
By I. D. Van Horn
THERE was quite a good representation of our people from this part of the State at this meeting, being about one hundred and fifty in all who camped on the ground. The meeting started off well, but the continual threatening of rain kept many residents of the town away. It rained in good earnest the evening after the Sabbath and all day Sunday. About 5 P. M. on Sunday there came up a heavy storm, the wind blowing a gale and the rain and hail coming in torrents. The forty-foot book tent and four of the small tents were blown down, and the large meeting tent was let down just in time to save it. Much of the clothing and bedding of the campers was thoroughly wet, but citizens of the place who resided near the ground, showed great kindness by taking the unfortunate ones to their homes and making them comfortable. We could have no meeting Sunday night, but on Monday morning we righted things up again and resumed the exercises. The meeting was not what we hoped it would be for the outside world; but the few people from the town who did attend, became much interested. It was a precious season for our own people. We had an excellent meeting on the Sabbath; thirty came forward for prayers, some of whom bore excellent testimony, and some were making a start for the first time. The sweet, melting Spirit of the Lord touched all hearts. The wants of the cause in the State were presented to the leading brethren present, and after due consideration, in a meeting held Monday morning, $6,440 was pledged in a short time. This, with what was pledged at the Southern camp-meeting, makes above $18,000 of the $20,000 that was voted to be raised in the State. No doubt there are others, who did not attend either of these meetings, who will esteem it a privilege to join their brethren in taking stock in the noble enterprises now being entered upon in the State. The canvassing, colporter work, city missions, and other395openings for labor, were set before the brethren, and some were strongly impressed with the duty of arranging their home cares so as to give themselves wholly to the work. The calls for labor, the readiness with which our periodicals, tracts, and other reading matter is taken, all shows clearly that the providence of God is far in advance of our work, and demands that many should give themselves to the cause as never before, and carry the truth into every city and town, and through the country everywhere. May God speed on the work, and may we all have a part in it to the end.