CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1889 by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 19.

CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1889.

By Editor

It is announced by the General Conference Committee that the camp-meetings this year will begin on Tuesday evening and close the following Tuesday morning. Those marked with the star (*) in the following list, will be preceded by a workers' meeting. The committee states that where workers' meetings are to be held, and they are not thus marked, notice should be given at once. The list, which is subject to change, is as follows:—

Nevada, Reno,	May 22-29
Missouri (Northern),	May 28 to June 4
*Iowa, Des Moines,	June 4-11
*Pennsylvania, Williamsport,	" 4-11
Minnesota,	" 11-18
*New York, Rome,	" 11-18
Wisconsin, Mauston,	" 18-25
Dakota, Madison,	June 25 to July 2
Michigan (Northern), Wexford,	" 25 to " 2
North Carolina,	July 9-16
Virginia,	" 16-23
West Virginia,	" 23-30
Georgia,	July 31 to Aug. 6
Michigan (Southwestern),	Aug. 13-20
*Ohio,	" 13-20
*Missouri (general),	" 13-20
California, Ferndale, Humbolt Co.,	" 15-22
Arkansas,	" 20-27
Maine,	" 20-27
Tennessee,	" 20-27
*Michigan (general),	Aug. 27 to Sept. 3
Texas,	" 27 to " 3
Vermont,	" 27 to " 3
California, San Diego,	" 29 to " 9
Colorado,	Sept. 2-10
Canada,	" 2-10
Nebraska,	" 10-17
Illinois,	" 17-24
Indiana,	Sept. 24 to Oct. 1
*California (general), Oakland,	" 25 to " 7

We begin this week the publication of a series of short articles on Russia, which we trust will be of interest to all our readers, especially as so many of them are contributing from week to week through the Sabbath-schools to aid in establishing missions in that country. We bespeak for these articles a careful reading.

We do not recollect ever having seen more error in 66 pages than is contained in a pamphlet entitled, "Some Theological Facts Brought to Light," by O. H. Harris, "founder of 'Progressive Christianity,'" Newman, Ill. One proposition which the author labors to prove is that "repentance is the first resurrection." And this proposition indicates the character of the pamphlet. If that sort of doctrine be "progressive" Christianity, we would prefer to have a more conservative type. The faith once delivered to the saints is good enough for us.

IN harmony with the recommendation of the General Conference Committee, Brother E. M. Morrison sailed, on the 5th inst., for Auckland, New Zealand, to assist those already in that country and Australia to carry forward the work in Australasia. Brother Morrison will take a general oversight of the book work in that field, a branch of the work for which he is especially fitted.

On the 8th inst., Brother W. C. White and wife, Brother J. I. Gibson and wife, Brother Wm. Hutchinson and wife, and others, left Oakland via the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad for various Eastern points. Brother White will attend a number of important meetings in the East, and hopes to return to this coast in the fall. Brother Gibson will spend some weeks in the Review and Herald Office at Battle Creek, Mich., before going to London, where he expects to take a position in the Pacific Press branch office soon to be established there, while Brother and Sister Hutchinson will spend a short time with friends in the East before going to their appointed field of labor in Ireland. May Heaven's choicest blessings attend these brethren and sisters as they go to their respective fields of labor, and may they see the Lord's work prosper in their hands.

We have received from the publisher, Fleming H. Revell, 12 Bible House, New York, and 148 and 150 Madison St., Chicago, the "Report of the Missionary Conference" in London for 1888, in two volumes of some 650 pages each. Price, $2.00. These books are full of the most interesting and profitable matter, and should be in the hands of all who are in any way interested in the success of Christian missions. Every Christian worker should be intelligent in regard to what is being done by the various mission societies for the spread of the gospel in heathen lands, and we know of no better source of information than these books. They are not made up of dry statistics, but are full of live matter, such as all Christian people will take pleasure in reading.

We hope that no reader of the Signs will pass by or read carelessly the article on page 292 entitled, "Rejected Because Not Understood." It is well worth a careful perusal, and we most heartily wish that all could have the privilege of reading the book from which it is taken, namely, "The Bible: Its Divine Origin and Entire Inspiration." In these days when professedly Christian men are sitting in judgment upon the Scriptures, assigning degrees of inspiration to the several books of the sacred volume and to their several parts, electing to reject this, and to receive that, it behooves those who believe that "all scripture is given by inspiration of God," not only to be fully persuaded in their own minds, but to be able to give a reason for the hope that is in them, because of the immutability of the word of God.

REV. JAY BENSON HAMILTON has an article in the California Christian Advocate, in which he gives some statistics relative to the support of the superannuates of the M. E. Church, which he says "ought to be written in tears, if tears would stain." And "they could not," he says, "be more distressing if written in blood." According to his showing, the sums contributed by that wealthy church for the support of its worn-out ministers and ministers' widows are indeed ridiculously small.

The records of seventy-five conferences show that the highest sum paid to any superannuate is $300, while the average sum falls below $100 per annum, while very many receive such niggardly sums as $50, $20, $10, and $5.00 per annum. We think that Mr. Hamilton puts it none too strongly when he says that "Methodism dishonors herself by reducing to pauperism her honored heroes who laid the foundation of her greatness."

THOSE who are interested in any way in the question, "Does prohibition prohibit?" should send twenty-five cents to the George W. Crane Publishing Company, Topeka, Kansas, for a copy of "Prohibition in Kansas," by S. B. Bradford, ex-Attorney-General of that State. The pamphlet also has an appendix giving the prohibitory law and the pharmacy law, together with the amendment adopted in 1887.

The author, who is a fearless advocate of prohibition, has had unexampled facilities for informing himself relative to the practical workings of prohibition in Kansas, and no one, whether friend or foe of prohibition, can fail to read his candid, fearless statement of facts with deep interest. Every friend of constitutional and statutory prohibition should not only read but should study Attorney Bradford's pamphlet, as it will fill their mouths with arguments in favor of prohibition; and the liquor dealers should read it, as it will show them what they will shortly have to meet in other States.

MR. CAINE, a Member of Parliament for Barrow-in-Furness, England, a leading temperance man, also an occasional preacher in Baptist pulpits, has been investigating missionary methods in India. "Evangelization," he says, "proceeds at a pace lamentably slow; missionaries are too few, and for the most part too costly, and much of their time is spent in educational and civilizing work, apart from the preaching of the gospel." And the Methodist Times, of which REV. HUGH Price Hughes is editor, is publishing articles to show that the educational work of missions originated by Doctor Duff in India, was a "fatal mistake." It is said that "Mr. Caine's strictures are beginning to stir many earnest minds."