THE SANTA ANA CAMP MEETING.
By Editor
It was the privilege of the editor of this paper to attend the Southern California camp meeting, held at Santa Ana, September 21 to October 1. There were present the laborers mentioned last week, besides Brethren Butz, Hicks, Morton, and other Bible workers. At an early stage in the meeting the camp was districted, and as many of the brethren as had had experience, set to work, with instructions to get each member of their companies who knew the Lord to laboring for others. The preaching was intensely practical. Instruction was given in health reform, spiritual gifts, the present aspects of the union of Church and State in this country, and in and through it all the necessity of a personal experience in the things of God, the needed preparation of heart for the reception of the Holy Spirit, and the love and mercy and goodness of God manifest in Jesus Christ; and as the laborers endeavored to lift up Christ as the all in all of every sin-sick soul, the One in whom the fullness of the Godhead dwells, the blessing of God came upon our meeting. It was again and again remarked that never was so much of the blessing of God and the working of his Spirit seen with so little effort on the part of men. To no man's preaching was the success of the meeting due; God worked with and beyond all, and to his glorious name be all the praise. There were over four hundred who encamped on the ground, the Sabbath school the last Sabbath numbering, we believe, 464. Collections were taken for the religious liberty work and first-day offerings, the amount of which we cannot now state. The Baptists kindly loaned their font for baptism, and Sabbath afternoon Elder Andross baptized eighty, forty-one males and thirty-nine females. Sixty or more of these were baptized into the message. There were many hopeful conversions of children, youth, and adults, on the ground. It was a good meeting, and the blessings were a foretaste of what lie beyond. May God help our brethren and sisters to "go forward." The people in the town were very kind, and there was no disturbance from the rough element, though the camp ground was right in the center of the town. The editor of the Blade, Mr. Cahill, was, in his notices of the meeting, fair and courteous.