RECENT CAMP-MEETINGS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Sep 20, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 38.

RECENT CAMP-MEETINGS.

By Editor

THE writer has had the privilege of attending two recent camp-meetings and taking active part with the ministers of God laboring therein. The first was held in Cloverdale, Cal., a thriving town situated in one of the beautiful little valleys of the Russian River, in Sonoma County, on the California Northwestern Railway. The ground itself was right in the heart of the city, in a beautiful grove of great oaks, which "flecked with leafy light and shadow" tent and earth, rendering the warmest days comfortable. (See cuts of book tent and grounds in Mission department.) The preaching was good, earnest, spiritual, and took hold of hearts. The great message in some of its many phases was the burden of the message borne. While the number of campers was small, on account of the fruit season, the attendance from the outside in the town increased from the very beginning, with an excellent interest. The burden of the meeting rested upon Elders Knox, Corliss, Snyder, Langdon, and Rine, the last two of whom with other helpers remained to develop the interest. An excellent parents' meeting was conducted throughout.

The writer left before the meeting closed to attend the State camp-meeting of Western Washington Conference, Seattle. We were there the last four days of the meeting. The election of conference officers occurred just before we reached the grounds. Elder E. L. Stewart was re-elected president. Associated with him on the executive committee are Elders W. F. Martin, H. C. J. Wollekar, and Brethren J. R. Clark, and McLafferty. R. C. Raley was elected conference secretary, and E. L. McLafferty missionary secretary. Two intermediate schools are just starting, one in the north and the other in the south of the conference. There was one good missionary meeting held, and we hope to see a large amount of missionary work done in that conference during the present year. The revival services, largely conducted by Elder Nettleton, were fruitful. Elders H. W. Decker and F. M. Burg were present and assisted in preaching and counsel. Elder C. F. Bollman presented the Southern colored work and Elder G. F. Enoch, editor of the Carribean Watchman, the work in the West Indies. W. V. Sample, of the Pacific Press Branch, Portland, represented the publishing work. There were many bright young men and women on the ground who if consecrated to God would be used of Him mightily.

The camp-ground was in a little grove jutting out into beautiful Green Lake, an ideal place for the worship of God. On the last day of the meeting thirty souls followed their Lord in baptism. In one case a father, mother, and son; for that husband the wife had been waiting and praying for seventeen years, and her waiting faith was at last rewarded.

We were glad to meet so many of our readers and friends in the field, and to visit our branch office in Portland, a cut of which appears in our Missions department. Now we are at home again, weary but of good courage, and before us the autumn and winter campaign, and our four Special Message SIGNS, the first of which will soon be ready for our readers.